Suicide bomber kills 27 car Shiite pilgrims in The Iraq
Today News : The attack, which also wounded at least 60, emphasizes sectarian tensions that threaten to further destabilize the situation in the country a year after U.S. troops left.
Police said the bomber crashed into a busy bus station where pilgrims caught the bus back to Baghdad and in the northern provinces after the rite of Arbain in the holy city of Karbala, where thousands make the annual pilgrimage.
Mussayab is located 60 km (40 miles) south of the capital Baghdad.
"I get a sandwich when a very strong explosion shook the place and the explosion threw me. When I came to my senses and stood up, I saw dozens of bodies," said Ali Sabbar, pilgrim, who witnessed the explosion.
"A lot of cars were set on fire. I just left the place and did not even participate in the evacuation."
Arbain was a frequent target of militants from the U.S. invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, who banned Shi'ite festivals.
Roadside bomb targeting minibus transporting Shiite pilgrims back from Karbala, wounding eight people in New Baghdad.
Last violence followed almost two weeks of protests against Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, thousands of people from the community of the Sunni minority in the western Anbar province, which shares a border with Syria.
Protesters accuse al-Maliki to be influenced by non-Arab Shi'ite neighbor Iran and the marginalization of the Sunnis, who dominated Iraq before the 2003 US-led invasion.
They want Maliki to cancel anti-terror laws used to say to pursue them.
Conflict in neighboring Syria, where the majority of the Sunni fighting to overthrow the government with the support of Shiite Iran, the inflaming sectarian sentiment in Iraq and the region as a whole.
Although violence is much lower than during the sectarian slaughter 2006-2007, a total of 4,471 civilians were killed last year in what one human rights group described as a "small war" against militants.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks on Thursday, but Iraq is home to several Sunni insurgent groups, including the local branch of Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq, who are often Shiites seek to re-ignite sectarian strife.
Today News : The attack, which also wounded at least 60, emphasizes sectarian tensions that threaten to further destabilize the situation in the country a year after U.S. troops left.
Police said the bomber crashed into a busy bus station where pilgrims caught the bus back to Baghdad and in the northern provinces after the rite of Arbain in the holy city of Karbala, where thousands make the annual pilgrimage.
Mussayab is located 60 km (40 miles) south of the capital Baghdad.
"I get a sandwich when a very strong explosion shook the place and the explosion threw me. When I came to my senses and stood up, I saw dozens of bodies," said Ali Sabbar, pilgrim, who witnessed the explosion.
"A lot of cars were set on fire. I just left the place and did not even participate in the evacuation."
Arbain was a frequent target of militants from the U.S. invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, who banned Shi'ite festivals.
Roadside bomb targeting minibus transporting Shiite pilgrims back from Karbala, wounding eight people in New Baghdad.
Last violence followed almost two weeks of protests against Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, thousands of people from the community of the Sunni minority in the western Anbar province, which shares a border with Syria.
Protesters accuse al-Maliki to be influenced by non-Arab Shi'ite neighbor Iran and the marginalization of the Sunnis, who dominated Iraq before the 2003 US-led invasion.
They want Maliki to cancel anti-terror laws used to say to pursue them.
Conflict in neighboring Syria, where the majority of the Sunni fighting to overthrow the government with the support of Shiite Iran, the inflaming sectarian sentiment in Iraq and the region as a whole.
Although violence is much lower than during the sectarian slaughter 2006-2007, a total of 4,471 civilians were killed last year in what one human rights group described as a "small war" against militants.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks on Thursday, but Iraq is home to several Sunni insurgent groups, including the local branch of Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq, who are often Shiites seek to re-ignite sectarian strife.
No comments:
Post a Comment