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muriel_volestrangler

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Mon Sep 30, 2013, 05:35 AM Sep 2013

Car bombs in Baghdad's Shi'ite districts kill at least 42 people

Source: Reuters

A series of car bombs exploded in busy areas in predominantly Shi'ite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 42 people and wounding dozens more, police and medical sources said.

The deadliest attack took place in Sadr City, where a car bomb blew up near a place where workers had gathered. It killed at least seven people, including two soldiers

It was not immediately clear who carried out the attacks, but hardline Sunni militants who view Shi'ites as non-believers have been stepping up their insurgency and striking with a ferocity not seen in years.

More than two years of civil war in neighbouring Syria have aggravated deep-rooted sectarian divisions and strained Iraq's fragile coalition of Shi'ite, Kurdish and Sunni factions.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/30/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE98T06O20130930

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Car bombs in Baghdad's Shi'ite districts kill at least 42 people (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 OP
No one gives a damn about this any more warrant46 Sep 2013 #1
4 trillion dollars for this result. Another war? No thanks. grahamhgreen Sep 2013 #2
Imagine if this had happened in an upscale shopping mall with Westerners. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #3

warrant46

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1. No one gives a damn about this any more
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 08:43 AM
Sep 2013

Except a few of the amerikan families who lost children in the mis-adventure

This turd sure doesn't --He just got up from a good sound sleep on his heated Water Bed

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