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Purveyor

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Sun Sep 29, 2013, 05:35 PM Sep 2013

42 Killed, 63 Wounded In Violence In Iraq

Source: Xinhua

BAGHDAD, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- At least 42 people were killed and 63 wounded in violent attacks in Iraq on Sunday, government sources said.

Up to 30 people were killed and about 40 wounded in a suicide bombing attack against a mosque in Mussaiyb town, south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

A suicide bomber blew up himself before the sunset at a funeral held at al-Hussien mosque in Mussaiyb, some 50 km south of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, up to six people were killed in a series of explosions in the city of Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan on Sunday, a Kurdish official said.

Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/29/c_132762510.htm

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42 Killed, 63 Wounded In Violence In Iraq (Original Post) Purveyor Sep 2013 OP
It's interesting lordsummerisle Sep 2013 #1
USA! USA! USA! Mnemosyne Sep 2013 #2
Another day in George W. Bush heaven. blkmusclmachine Sep 2013 #3
"Freedom is on the March" warrant46 Sep 2013 #4

lordsummerisle

(4,653 posts)
1. It's interesting
Sun Sep 29, 2013, 06:08 PM
Sep 2013

how little the main-stream media covers all of these terror attacks in Iraq. Hasn't there been over 5000 dead there this year alone?

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