Bombings in Baghdad

[aris2chat]

BAGHDAD DOUBLE BOMBING - U/D: - 167 killed - 25 children included - 176 wounded - 2 bombings in shopping center - ISIS claim responsibility.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I'm confused. Aren't bombs illegal in Iraq? How did they get their hands on these dangerous assault weapons?

Islamic State car bomb in Iraqi capital kills 115

 

[yiostheoy]

Sunni on Shia crimes.

Or is it the other way around this time?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Damn Baptists have got to be stopped.

 

[aris2chat]

A map of every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003

 

[DigitalDrifter]

A map of every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003

We should have NEVER went into Iraq. We should have put all of our eggs in our basket in Afghanistan, hunted down Obama Bin Laden, and called it good.
Having said that, there is no excuse for what Islamic extremists are doing today, and the bottom line these fuckers started all of this with 9/11.

They'll say of course it's our support of Israel that started all of this crap, but they are the ones who cannot coexist with a different religion among their region. They want all the land, and are not willing to simply allow the existence of Israel.

Fuck them all.

 

[WillowTree]

 

[skye]

Horrible carnage!



"... was the deadliest terror attack in Iraq in a year and one of the worst single bombings in more than a decade of war and insurgency."

 

[Rustic]

A map of every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003

According to progressives bombs don't kill, only Ar15's do…

 

[HenryBHough]

But that's a bomb-free zone! Properly posted!

Obviously just an anti-Obama hoax.

 

[Sunni Man]

A map of every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003

And?? ......

 

[georgephillip]

Mission Accomplished

 

[ninja007]

A map of every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003

And?? ......

and? I thought Islam was peaceful?

 

[waltky]

A Staggering Reminder That Car Bombs Are An Epidemic In Baghdad...

A map of every car bomb explosions in Baghdad since 2003
4 July, 2016 A shocking map is shared on social media. It is about every car bomb explosions in Baghdad since 2003.

Alexander C. Kaufman wrote a piece titled “A Staggering Reminder That Car Bombs Are An Epidemic In Baghdad” in the Huffington Post. He mentioned recent terror attacks all around the world.

A map of every car bomb explosions in Baghdad since 2003.​

“The death toll is significantly higher this time than in other recent terror attacks the group has claimed. Gunmen killed 20 hostages at a café in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Friday night. Tuesday’s terror attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport killed 41 and left 239 injured. The bombings in Brussels in March ended 35 lives and wounded more than 300 people,” he wrote. He also shared a tweet about the shocking map.

A map of every car bomb explosions in Baghdad since 2003

 

[HenryBHough]

FDR wanted a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.

Obama wants a bomb in every car.

He's as lovingly caring, in His own way, as was Mr. Rooseveldt.

 

[waltky]

More than 200 dead in IS-claimed Baghdad blast: officials...

Fury over insecurity as Iraqis mourn 200 dead in Baghdad blast
July 4, 2016 • Iraqis on Monday mourned more than 200 people killed in a Baghdad suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group and accused the government of not doing enough to protect them.

Baghdad, apparently seeking to shore up its image after one of the deadliest ever bombings in Iraq, announced the execution of five convicts and also said it had arrested 40 jihadists. The grim search continued for bodies at the site of the attack that hit the upmarket Karrada district early on Sunday as it teemed with shoppers ahead of this week's holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced efforts to address longstanding security flaws in Baghdad following the blast, which came a week after Iraqi forces recaptured the city of Fallujah from IS.

But Iraqis are furious at the government's inability to keep residents safe, even as its forces on the battlefield push back IS outside the capital. "I swear to God, the government is a failure," said a woman who gave her name as Umm Alaa, who lost her apartment in the attack. IS "tactics are changing. Why does the Iraqi government have fixed tactics?" a man asked at the site of the bombing, criticising the government's "stupid checkpoints" and use of fake bomb detectors. And Inam al-Zubaidi said she came to the site to offer condolences to "the families of the martyrs, who fell in this place because of the failed government". As Iraq marked three days of national mourning, security and medical officials told AFP the number of dead from the attack had risen to at least 213. More than 200 were wounded, they said.

- Digging through ashes -

Iraq's justice ministry announced the execution Monday of five convicts, whose crimes were not specified, in a statement that linked the timing of the executions with the Karrada blast. The ministry said it wanted bereaved families to know "that their brothers in the justice ministry are continuing to deliver just punishment to those whose hands are stained with the blood of Iraqis". Baghdad also said that security forces had arrested "40 terrorists" who were allegedly linked to planned attacks during Ramadan. In Karrada, a young man lit a candle on a staircase leading to the basement of one charred building, adding to dozens of others left by mourners at the site of the bombing, which sparked infernos in nearby buildings.

Down the stairs, young men dug through the ashes using shovels and their hands, searching for those still missing after the blast. Black banners bearing the names of victims -- including multiple members of some families -- hung from burned buildings, announcing the dates and locations of their funerals. Abadi was met with an angry response when he visited the site on Sunday, with one video showing men throwing rocks at what was said to be the premier's convoy, while a man could be heard cursing him in another clip. IS claimed the attack in a statement saying it was carried out by an Iraqi as part of "ongoing security operations".

- Baghdad security flaws -

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ISIS Bombing in Baghdad Casts Doubt on Iraqi Leader’s Ability to Unite
JULY 4, 2016 — As grief-stricken Iraqis held a candlelight vigil Sunday night at the site of a car bombing that killed more than 150 people, workers often using the flashlights from their cellphones were still pulling bodies from the rubble.

As Sunday gave way to Monday morning, with bodies still buried, some began expressing their grief through politics, waving banners listing the dead and demanding that officials, including Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, resign. The attack in a shopping area in the Karada neighborhood was the deadliest in Baghdad in many years, and after the final death toll is known it could become the deadliest ever. As bloody as it was, the bombing in Baghdad was but the worst of a wave of global terrorism in recent days attributed to militants aligned with the Islamic State. Seemingly unconnected to any political purpose and intended to kill indiscriminately, be it by gunfire, explosions or, in the case of a restaurant in Bangladesh, an arsenal including swords, the violence has cut across religions, national identities, ages and professions.

The violence touched people from all parts of the globe. More than 40 were killed at Istanbul’s main airport last week — Saudis, Iraqis and citizens of Iran, China, Tunisia and Ukraine, though most were Turkish. Among the dead were taxi drivers, an interpreter helping tourists, a customs officer and an airport worker who was looking forward to his wedding, which would have been at the end of this week. In Bangladesh, young men, many of them from privileged backgrounds, used guns, bombs, knives and swords in an assault on foreigners at a popular restaurant on a Friday night. They killed 22 people, many in gruesome fashion. The dead included nine Italians, one of whom was pregnant; seven urban planners from Japan; a Bangladeshi woman who worked for art galleries; a 19-year-old Indian woman attending the University of California, Berkeley; two other college students; and two police officers.

In Iraq, the victims were all Iraqis. Desperate to respond to the public’s grief and anger, Mr. Abadi tried to assuage Iraqis’ desire for revenge by promising to speed the executions of Islamic State militants on death row. Later in the day, the Justice Ministry announced that five convicted terrorists had been executed, and images of their hangings were shown on state television. Mr. Abadi also announced a series of new security measures, most prominently an order that the Iraqi police and soldiers stop using bomb detectors that long ago were determined to be fakes. The wandlike devices have been used for years at Baghdad’s checkpoints and have been derided by a public angered by the government’s inability to protect its citizens. In 2013, a British man was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling millions of dollars’ worth of the fake devices to the Iraqi government.

Nevertheless, on Monday morning the police were still using the devices at checkpoints across Baghdad, underscoring how little ever changes, even though Iraq has been consumed by violence for more than a decade. Just this year, through June, nearly 5,000 Iraqi civilians and security force members had been killed by militant attacks and conflict, according to the United Nations. Protests have been fairly muted so far, with grief for the dead still the overwhelming emotion for Iraqis. That is affording a bit of breathing space for Mr. Abadi, a Shiite who became prime minister in 2014 with the backing of American officials who believed he could reunite the country in the face of an onslaught by the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State.

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[Coyote]

I'm confused. Aren't bombs illegal in Iraq? How did they get their hands on these dangerous assault weapons?

Islamic State car bomb in Iraqi capital kills 115

Bombings in Iraq, Bangladesh, Turkey....they're seeking Armegeddon

 

[georgephillip]

"They were shopkeepers and families with children. One was a young man said to be a recent law school graduate. Another had just finished a PhD in microbiology, according to Iraqi reports. They found themselves in a shopping district of Baghdad’s Karada neighborhood early Sunday morning when a suicide bomber detonated a truckload of explosives."
Latest Baghdad Bombing Underscores Iraq’s Ongoing Nightmare
Is there any reason why US "defense" contractors and their shareholders should continue to profit from the misery they have bestowed upon Iraq?

 

[ninja007]

islam- the only religion today who commands killing of all infidels, beating your wife,lying, beheading, etc etc etc...

 

[theHawk]

islam- the only religion today who commands killing of all infidels, beating your wife,lying, beheading, etc etc etc...

And the only people defending that ideology are progressives.