Leroy N. Soetoro
2016-07-05 17:01:00 UTC
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/04/middleeast/baghdad-car-bombs/index.html
(CNN)More than a day after a suicide truck bomb ripped through Baghdad,
families are still hoping that rescuers searching through the rubble can
locate the bodies of their loved ones.
The bombing early Sunday in a busy shopping district was the deadliest
single attack in Iraq's war-weary capital in years, killing at least 215
people, Mohamed al-Rubaye?, deputy head of the security committee of the
Baghdad Provincial Council, said Monday on Afaq TV.
Crews remain at the scene in the Karrada neighborhood where the blast
occurred, trying to pull bodies from the devastation. Around 175 people
were wounded, Rubaye said.
And 81 of the bodies are so charred, DNA testing will need to be conducted
to identify them, he said.
One couple at the scene were searching for their teenage son who had gone
to a cafe with his friends to celebrate his birthday.
Another man was looking for five relatives, including children, who were
buying new clothes for Eid-al-Fitr -- the celebration that marks the end
of Ramadan on Tuesday.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest in a string of
assaults during the holy month for Muslims, a period of fasting and
prayer, and also a time when jihadists launch operations against those
they regard as their enemies.
A second bomb exploded Sunday at an outdoor market in the Shaab
neighborhood of southeastern Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five
others, police said.
Both Baghdad strikes are a sign of the Sunni-Shiite tension in the Muslim
world. Sunni-dominated ISIS claimed it was targeting Shiite neighborhoods.
Karrada and Shaab are predominately Shiite neighborhoods.
ISIS said it would carry out more terror attacks during Ramadan. The
Baghdad bombing came after massacres at a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the
Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, and security targets in
Yemen. There have also been recent suicide attacks in Jordan and Lebanon.
Last month, a gunman shot up a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, an attacker
killed a police commander and his partner in France, and four Israelis
were killed at a Tel Aviv market.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for some of these attacks, while the
terror group inspired others, authorities said.
A recent wave of suicide bombings also struck three Saudi Arabian cities
over a 24-hour period ending Monday. The attacks occurred near the U.S.
Consulate in Jeddah, near a Shiite mosque in Qatif, and in Medina, the
holy city, where four people were killed. Analysts suspect ISIS could be
behind the strikes.
Witness: 'I lost several friends'
In Karrada, college student Sadeq al Zawini, 25, was watching as rescue
workers pulled bodies from the rubble.
"We've had it with the Iraqi government and politicians. They can't
continue blaming Daesh and other terrorist groups. We need a solution," he
said, using another name for ISIS.
"I lost several friends myself, some are still missing," he said, sobbing.
Iraqis expressed their anger over the situation when Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi and other officials attempted to survey the bomb damage.
Amateur videos posted on social media showed residents throwing objects at
a convoy carrying Abadi in Karrada. In the videos, protesters yelled,
"Thief!" and "Get out!"
Abadi called the Karrada strike "dastardly" and "cowardly" and said the
country will hold a three-day mourning period.
In a statement, Abadi said he understands the reaction of residents in
"that moment of grief."
He said he came to Karrada to console families and "share their sorrow in
this painful tragedy that happened."
He said ISIS tried to hijack the joy that Iraqis felt over recent
victories against ISIS in Falluja.
Bombing follows Iraqi gains on ISIS
This flurry of ISIS strikes during Ramadan comes as the United States said
the group is losing ground in the warfare across Syria and Iraq.
Iraqi forces announced last week they have seized the city of Falluja, 40
miles west of Baghdad, from ISIS. At the time, authorities assured Baghdad
residents that the bombings would stop.
But Cedric Leighton, a CNN military analyst and retired Air Force colonel,
said he thinks the attacks will worsen, adding that ISIS' game plan is to
generate instability.
"They are trying to create enough chaos in Iraq itself so that the Iraqi
forces will find it very difficult to actually take advantage of the
forward momentum they have achieved because of their victory in Falluja
and that is a very serious issue that the al-Abadi administration is going
to have to address."
Attacks such as the one in Baghdad will drive a wedge between the
government and the people, in particular Shiites.
"The wedge was already there, and it's fairly easy for them to exploit
this," Leighton said.
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(CNN)More than a day after a suicide truck bomb ripped through Baghdad,
families are still hoping that rescuers searching through the rubble can
locate the bodies of their loved ones.
The bombing early Sunday in a busy shopping district was the deadliest
single attack in Iraq's war-weary capital in years, killing at least 215
people, Mohamed al-Rubaye?, deputy head of the security committee of the
Baghdad Provincial Council, said Monday on Afaq TV.
Crews remain at the scene in the Karrada neighborhood where the blast
occurred, trying to pull bodies from the devastation. Around 175 people
were wounded, Rubaye said.
And 81 of the bodies are so charred, DNA testing will need to be conducted
to identify them, he said.
One couple at the scene were searching for their teenage son who had gone
to a cafe with his friends to celebrate his birthday.
Another man was looking for five relatives, including children, who were
buying new clothes for Eid-al-Fitr -- the celebration that marks the end
of Ramadan on Tuesday.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest in a string of
assaults during the holy month for Muslims, a period of fasting and
prayer, and also a time when jihadists launch operations against those
they regard as their enemies.
A second bomb exploded Sunday at an outdoor market in the Shaab
neighborhood of southeastern Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five
others, police said.
Both Baghdad strikes are a sign of the Sunni-Shiite tension in the Muslim
world. Sunni-dominated ISIS claimed it was targeting Shiite neighborhoods.
Karrada and Shaab are predominately Shiite neighborhoods.
ISIS said it would carry out more terror attacks during Ramadan. The
Baghdad bombing came after massacres at a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the
Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, and security targets in
Yemen. There have also been recent suicide attacks in Jordan and Lebanon.
Last month, a gunman shot up a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, an attacker
killed a police commander and his partner in France, and four Israelis
were killed at a Tel Aviv market.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for some of these attacks, while the
terror group inspired others, authorities said.
A recent wave of suicide bombings also struck three Saudi Arabian cities
over a 24-hour period ending Monday. The attacks occurred near the U.S.
Consulate in Jeddah, near a Shiite mosque in Qatif, and in Medina, the
holy city, where four people were killed. Analysts suspect ISIS could be
behind the strikes.
Witness: 'I lost several friends'
In Karrada, college student Sadeq al Zawini, 25, was watching as rescue
workers pulled bodies from the rubble.
"We've had it with the Iraqi government and politicians. They can't
continue blaming Daesh and other terrorist groups. We need a solution," he
said, using another name for ISIS.
"I lost several friends myself, some are still missing," he said, sobbing.
Iraqis expressed their anger over the situation when Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi and other officials attempted to survey the bomb damage.
Amateur videos posted on social media showed residents throwing objects at
a convoy carrying Abadi in Karrada. In the videos, protesters yelled,
"Thief!" and "Get out!"
Abadi called the Karrada strike "dastardly" and "cowardly" and said the
country will hold a three-day mourning period.
In a statement, Abadi said he understands the reaction of residents in
"that moment of grief."
He said he came to Karrada to console families and "share their sorrow in
this painful tragedy that happened."
He said ISIS tried to hijack the joy that Iraqis felt over recent
victories against ISIS in Falluja.
Bombing follows Iraqi gains on ISIS
This flurry of ISIS strikes during Ramadan comes as the United States said
the group is losing ground in the warfare across Syria and Iraq.
Iraqi forces announced last week they have seized the city of Falluja, 40
miles west of Baghdad, from ISIS. At the time, authorities assured Baghdad
residents that the bombings would stop.
But Cedric Leighton, a CNN military analyst and retired Air Force colonel,
said he thinks the attacks will worsen, adding that ISIS' game plan is to
generate instability.
"They are trying to create enough chaos in Iraq itself so that the Iraqi
forces will find it very difficult to actually take advantage of the
forward momentum they have achieved because of their victory in Falluja
and that is a very serious issue that the al-Abadi administration is going
to have to address."
Attacks such as the one in Baghdad will drive a wedge between the
government and the people, in particular Shiites.
"The wedge was already there, and it's fairly easy for them to exploit
this," Leighton said.
--
His Omnipotence Barack Hussein Obama, declared himself "Pooptator" of all
mentally ill homosexuals and crossdressers, while declaring where they
will defecate.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $19 trillion in the seven
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America. The only American president to deliberately import a
lethal infectious disease from Africa, Ebola.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptitude.
Obama continues his muslim goal of disarming America while ObamaCare
increases insurance premiums 300% and leaves millions without health care.
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