More “peaceful” Muslims doing what they do best, blowing things up – including other Muslims. What the hell, they even blow themselves up!
The “wonders” of religious fanaticism are displayed almost on a daily basis somewhere in the world, and the results are never pleasant. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Reuters
Photography: Associated Press
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A series of car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, two of them targeting Iranian pilgrims, killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 80 others, Interior Ministry and police sources said.
Militants blew up a car bomb in front of a house used by Iranians as a rest stop in the Kadhamiya district of Baghdad, as well as explosives planted in an adjacent house, an Interior Ministry source said.
The explosions killed five people, wounded 18 and severely damaged the two houses, the source said.
In Baghdad’s northern Shula district, a car bomb exploded near a bus carrying Iranians, killing two people and wounding 28, the source said.
A police source said seven were killed and 45 wounded in total in the two incidents.
A third car bomb blast struck a market in Baghdad’s southwestern Bayaa district, killing six people and wounding 41 others, the ministry source said.
Baghdad’s northern Kadhamiya area hosts the golden-domed shrine for Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, a medieval Shi’ite holy man. During a pilgrimage in 2005, rumors of a bombing on the Bridge of the Imams, which leads to the shrine, touched off a stampede that killed 1,000 people.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranian religious tourists have visited Shi’ite holy sites in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Saddam crushed insurrections by Iraq’s Shi’ite majority, banned Shi’ite religious festivals and fought an eight-year war with Shi’ite power Iran.
Pilgrims are often targeted by Sunni Islamist groups such as al Qaeda in Iraq, which view Shi’ite Muslims as apostates.
Fifteen people died and dozens were hurt on Friday when two buses carrying mostly Iranian pilgrims collided on a highway near the city of Hilla, about 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad.
(Writing by Jim Loney)
