Wave of car bombings target Iraqi Shi'ites, killing 60

[Rhiannon12866]

Last edited Mon Jul 29, 2013, 04:35 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD | Mon Jul 29, 2013 10:43am EDT

(Reuters) - Car bombs ripped through busy streets and markets in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 60 people in predominantly Shi'ite areas in some of the deadliest violence since Sunni insurgents stepped up attacks this year.

The 17 blasts, which appeared to be coordinated, were concentrated on towns and cities in Iraq's mainly Shi'ite south, and districts of the capital where Shi'ites live.

Militant groups including al Qaeda have increased attacks in recent months in an insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government as a civil war in neighboring Syria heightens sectarian tensions.

The violence has raised fears of a return to full-blown intercommunal conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds, majority Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims have yet to find a stable way of sharing power.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/29/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE96S06420130729

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Updated twice, expect there will be more to come...

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. How long until we have to start calling this a civil war, too?

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Previous reports say that July has been the deadliest month in Iraq for a year...

So much for "democracy..."

[David__77]

3. Maybe soon.

The armed non-state actors in Iraq don't hold territory per se, but the al Qaeda types could do so fairly easily in their old places in Anbar. Here we go again. This time, there is no US enemy - just what they see as infidels. 500 al Qaeda members were just sprung from prison, so maybe that will factor into all of this somehow.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Now 55 dead :

Wave of car bombings target Iraqi Shi'ites, killing 55

Link at OP updated.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Thanks, dipsy, updated again. Headline now says 60...

[vinny9698]

5. The IRA in Ireland had only aout a dozen hard core bombers

At the peak of the bombing campaign, only about a dozen or so people were doing the bombing, Until the group got infiltrated, there was mayhem for years. Doesn't take a whole lot of people to create mayhem.

[dipsydoodle]

7. They were mainly youngsters too.

The moral may be to take care of whose parents you contribute to the death of : its their children you'll get the blowback from.

There is major difference between what some do and the background to why they do so.