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
xocet
(3,871 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)the war.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)I won't bother searching now.
AAO
(3,300 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)Seriously, how can he sleep at night?
hibbing
(10,098 posts)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
tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)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)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.
Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)all I keep thinking is how glad I am that we left.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,574 posts)is always a sign of peace, security and tranquility which the US helped install, right Msrrs Bush and Cheney?
Botany
(70,504 posts)lutefisk
(3,974 posts)Guilt by fucking association.
Fuck!
Just makes me sick.