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muriel_volestrangler

(101,316 posts)
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 06:31 PM Jun 2014

More than 60 people killed in wave of car bombs across Baghdad

Source: Reuters

A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq, security and medical sources said.

In total, there were a dozen blasts in mainly Shi'ite districts of the capital, the deadliest of which occurred in Bayaa, where a car bomb left 23 people dead, many of them young men playing billiards.

"I was about to close my shop when I heard a huge explosion on the main commercial street," said Kareem Abdulla, whose legs were still shaking from the shock. "I saw many cars set ablaze as well as shops".

Other bombs went off near a cinema, a popular juice shop and a Shi'ite mosque.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/07/uk-iraq-violence-idUKKBN0EI0T020140607

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More than 60 people killed in wave of car bombs across Baghdad (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2014 OP
The Bush Legacy continues.... n/t xocet Jun 2014 #1
More like the "House of Bush House of Saud" legacy continues. Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #8
I remember Iraqi woman who said they never had any suicide bombs before ErikJ Jun 2014 #2
I wondered about that. dipsydoodle Jun 2014 #3
No George, we don't miss you yet. Get a new slogan because this one is dead. AAO Jun 2014 #4
Thanks W for opening the gates of hell lordsummerisle Jun 2014 #5
he's a psychopath hibbing Jun 2014 #9
How is it Bush/Cheney haven't developed disorders, knowing their evil deeds continue to kill/maim? tofuandbeer Jun 2014 #13
For better or worse, this is Iraq's problem now. We're pretty much gone. Comrade Grumpy Jun 2014 #6
our doing from beginning to endlessness reddread Jun 2014 #14
Just horrible, but Tommy2Tone Jun 2014 #7
A bomb going off Dyedinthewoolliberal Jun 2014 #10
The legacy of w, Cheney, Rummy, Condi, and so on. Botany Jun 2014 #11
And the rest of us, too. lutefisk Jun 2014 #12

hibbing

(10,098 posts)
9. he's a psychopath
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 10:04 PM
Jun 2014

These headlines will be showing up for the rest of my lifetime I am afraid. Unless the U.S. government can get some authoritarian dictator "elected".

Peace

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
6. For better or worse, this is Iraq's problem now. We're pretty much gone.
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 07:39 PM
Jun 2014

There's an Al Qaeda-affiliated Sunni insurgency linked to the Al Qaeda-affiliated Sunni groups in Syria, and I think the US has now supplied or agreed to supply some attack helicopters or something like that to the Iraqi government.

But that insurgency also festers because of Sunni disenchantment with Maliki's Shiite government. It's a mess, and it sounds like Maliki has made it worse.

But it makes for bizarre foreign policy: We're now providing military assistance to Maliki, who is aligned with Iran and Syria, to fight Sunni insurgents opposed to Assad and Maliki, while at the same time, we're providing military assistance to other Syrian Sunni insurgents who are opposed to Assad, and probably don't like Maliki much each. Meanwhile, those Al Qaeda types we're opposing in Iraq and Syria are probably getting most of their gun money from our allies, the Saudis and Qataris. Ouch.

 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
14. our doing from beginning to endlessness
Sun Jun 8, 2014, 09:09 AM
Jun 2014

our fingerprints are all over violence in Iraq for over 20 years.
our tax dollars continue to do their work.
to think we are gone or disinterested now,
let alone harmless?
absurd.

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,574 posts)
10. A bomb going off
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 10:23 PM
Jun 2014

is always a sign of peace, security and tranquility which the US helped install, right Msrrs Bush and Cheney?

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