KABOOM! KABOOM! KABOOM! Not one, not two, but three car bombs this time around. These Muslims just love those bombs… They make bombs like the Japanese make cars. They just love blowing things up, especially people. The stench of burning bodies, the site of shattered bones and of blood oozing out of bodies must really turn these indoctrinated, mindless imbeciles on. Stupid bastards; they kill these innocent people because they don’t believe the same silly superstitions that they believe. If it wasn’t so tragic it would be really, really funny. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
“At least 10 people were killed” in Zubayr, said Jabbar al-Saadi of the Basra provincial council’s security committee, adding that 24 people were wounded.
The explosion, which occurred around 5:30 pm (1430 GMT), rocked a market area known as Souk al-Halaqin in Zubayr, just 10 kilometres (six miles) southwest of the oil hub of Basra, he said.
Bombings are rare in Iraq’s south, which is predominantly Shiite and hard to penetrate for Sunni jihadist groups responsible for most such attacks in Baghdad and other parts of the country.
“The soldiers of the caliphate managed to detonate a parked car bomb amidst a gathering of polytheist Rafidha in Basra,” said the IS claim posted on social media.
IS routinely uses the term Rafidha to refer to Shiite Muslims.
The Basra region has been spared the violence unleashed on other parts of Iraq by IS since last year, but feuding between rival Shiite armed groups and criminal gangs has risen lately.
Two other car bombs went off in areas north of Baghdad that have been routinely targeted by the jihadists.
A blast in a market area of Khalis, around 55 kilometres from the capital, killed at least 35 people and wounded 74, a senior police officer said.
Local councillor Uday al-Hadran as well as medical sources in Khalis and in the provincial capital Baquba confirmed the casualty toll.
Diyala, a religiously and ethnically mixed province that IS partly took over last year, was declared liberated by the government in January.
The jihadists, who consider Shiites heretics, no longer have fixed positions in the province, but have reverted to their old tactics of planting car bombs and carrying out suicide operations or hit-and-run attacks.
In Hosseiniyah, barely 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Baghdad, a car bomb detonated in a busy area, killing five people and wounding at least 17, a police colonel said.
According to figures released by the UN Mission in Iraq on Thursday, 717 Iraqis were killed and 1,216 wounded in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in September.
The Baghdad governorate alone accounted for 257 of the deaths.
The United Nations says its figures account only for the casualties that can be verified, and are likely to be far below reality.
