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ourfuneral

(150 posts)
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 05:55 AM Oct 2013

Dozens dead in fresh wave of Baghdad bombings aimed at Shia areas

Source: The Guardian

Sunday 27 October 2013 04.30 EDT

Insurgents unleashed a new wave of car bombs in Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 39 people and wounding dozens, officials said. It was the latest in a series of co-ordinated attacks targeting civilian areas that have killed hundreds in recent months.

Four police officers said the bombs, placed in parked cars and detonated over half an hour, targeted commercial areas and car parks. The deadliest blasts were in the northern Shaab, southern Abu Dshir and south-eastern Nahrwan districts, each of which killed six people.

Other blasts hit the neighbourhoods of Mashtal, Baladiyat and Ur in eastern Baghdad and the northern Sab al-Bor and Hurriyah districts.

Six medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to release information.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/dozens-dead-baghdad-bombings-shia-areas

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Dozens dead in fresh wave of Baghdad bombings aimed at Shia areas (Original Post) ourfuneral Oct 2013 OP
OMG Berlum Oct 2013 #1
Except his mission really WAS accomplished Scootaloo Oct 2013 #2
NOT our problem reddread Oct 2013 #3
 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
2. Except his mission really WAS accomplished
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 07:48 AM
Oct 2013

...it just happens that the mission he was on was not the one he claimed to the American public.

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