Two roadside bombs outside mosque kill 30 in Baquba - Iraqi police

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Reuters

Two roadside bombs exploded outside a mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba killing 30 people, as Sunni Muslim worshippers were leaving following Friday prayers, police said.

A further 25 people were wounded in the blasts, which went off in quick succession. The second tore through a crowd of people who had rushed to help those hurt in the first.
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About 800 Iraqis were killed in August, according to the United Nations, with more than a third of the deadly attacks happening in Baghdad.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/09/13/uk-iraq-violence-idUKBRE98C0H520130913

[madrchsod]

1. this was the reason why old man bush did`t go to bagdad

this is the reason clinton kept the status quo. but bush the kid decided he`d show up his old man and millions will keep paying the price.

[warrant46]

10. Mission Accomplished !! --Bush

[hibbing]

2. Idiot son freedomized them

[Plucketeer]

3. Yet one more shining example

of the sort of FREE-DUMB that Bachmann, King and Ghomert were pedaling to Egypt this week! WHOOPEE!!! Democracy and weapons for EVERYBODY!!!!

[Skittles]

4. whenever I read these stories

I think about how the people killed and their families have put up with the fear of this for so long

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Makes one wonder why Obama is even CONSIDERING messing around in Syria.

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USA did such a "nice" job in Iraq.

I suspect that USA's intervention in Iraq caused more death and maiming than Saddam would have -

and the "gift" of "freedom" is still giving . 800 in a month - (sigh)

Yankee stay home! - Ya gots ur own problems there.

CC

[Igel]

6. Except that from Syria to the current-Iraq isn't a large distance.

And the US didn't need to be involved in either.

There was a persistent claim that the problem in Iraq was the presence of the US. It might be that all the violence was directed at the US and at collaborators. It might be that the US presence kept the locals from working out their differences. Either option's been thoroughly falsified. It wasn't the US presence that led to all the internecine fighting. And in the nearly two years that the US has been out, it's actually gotten a bit worse.

For that we can still blame Saddam, who re-tribalized his country during the '80s and '90s and pitted Shi'ites and Sunnis against each other--leading many Sunnis to think they were a majority and to lord it over the Shi'ites, while abusing the Shi'ites and causing many to dislike Sunnis even more.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Iraq violence: Suicide bomber attacks funeral, more than 20 dead

A suicide bomber has detonated explosives at a funeral in northern Iraq, killing more than 20 people and wounding scores, officials said.

The attack took place on Saturday near Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province.

It is no yet clear who was behind the bombing. Sectarian violence has surged across the country in recent months, reaching its highest level since 2008.
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Police said the latest attack targeted the funeral of a member of the Shabak people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24092201

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. 35 killed in Iraq car bomb blasts

A new wave of insurgent attacks, mostly car bombs targeting Shiite-dominated cities in central and southern Iraq, killed at least 35 people, officials said.

The attacks continue a surge in bloodshed that has engulfed the country for months. No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, which targeted commercial areas and car parks in seven cities. But systematically organised waves of bombings are used out by al Qaida's local branch, known as the Islamic State of Iraq, to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government.

The deadliest was in the city of Hillah, 60 miles south of Baghdad, where a car bomb explosion near an outdoor market and parking lot killed nine civilians and wounded 15 others, a police officer said. A few minutes later, another car bomb went off nearby, killing six civilians and wounding 14, he added.

In the nearby town of Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, another car bomb hit a car park, killing four civilians and wounding nine, police said.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/35-killed-in-iraq-car-bomb-blasts-29580633.html

[Sunlei]

9. I hold my breath & worry

one of these days a 'car bomb' will have worse load of poison and kill thousands.

so evil any bombings & these bombings in the name of religion are the most moronic of all