Bombings Kill 45 In Shi'ite Areas Of Baghdad And Outskirts: Police

[Purveyor]

Source: REUTERS

(Reuters) - At least 45 people were killed in bombings in Baghdad and its rural outskirts on Saturday as the government continued to defend the capital against jihadists who four months ago seized major cities in northern Iraq.

Islamic State (IS) fighters, who took control of large sections of Iraq this year, regularly target Shi'ite districts in Baghdad and are penetrating surrounding farmland where Iraqi security forces and Shi'ite militias try to push them back.

In west Baghdad, 34 people were killed by three car bombs in Shi'ite neighborhoods on Saturday evening, police and medical officials said.

A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle up at a traffic roundabout in Kadhimiya, killing 11 people, three of them police officers, officials said. Another 27 were wounded.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/12/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-blast-idUSKCN0I00NI20141012

[hibbing]

1. mission accomplished

Unfortunately, I think I will be reading articles like this for the rest of my life.

Peace

[grahamhgreen]

3. Likely for the NEXT 1400 years....

[Fred Sanders]

2. Suicide bombings in Baghdad and throughout the country have been common for almost 2 years.

They have actually dropped in the last few months, not counting this mass murder.

By the way, it is mass murder, not a suicide or terrorist attack.....mass murder, an unspeakable criminal act.

Handy interactive graph..can not believe I just said that:

https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/

[Skeowes28]

4. The country

Iraq has to step there game up and take care of these animals I bet Obama will have sent 10 to 15 thousand troops to Iraq by the end of his term

[Purveyor]

5. Will take at least 100k and a permanent presence to clean up this mess, imo. eom

[left-of-center2012]

6. Meanwhile, back at the ranch .....

........... George Bush smirks and paints, fancying himself as Churchill.

[Rhinodawg]

7. Those crazy Islamic Caliphate.

always getting into trouble .





Obvious sarcasm.