Bomb attacks kill at least 24 in Iraq
Source: Reuters
At least 24 people were killed in bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital late on Monday, including blasts near two Shi'ite Muslim mosques and at a busy bus station, police and medics said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for any of the attacks, but Shi'ites are often targeted by Sunni Islamist insurgents who have been regaining ground in Iraq over the past year and overran several towns in recent weeks.
In Monday's deadliest attack, a minibus packed with explosives blew up at a bus station in the mainly Shi'ite district of Ur in northern Baghdad, killing at least 11 people, police and medical sources said.
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A car bomb near a busy street in Baghdad's western district of Ghazaliya killed four others. In separate incidents in the city of Tikrit, gunmen shot dead a police colonel and a barber inside his shop.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/17/us-iraq-violence-idUSBREA1G1AY20140217
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I am so glad that we are out of that country. We only have Afghanistan left and we should be out of there by the end of the year.
hibbing
(10,109 posts)I'm afraid I'm going to be reading stories like this from Iraq for the rest of my lifetime. While the idiot son sits in his mansion in his gated community, paints dogs, and sleeps like a baby.
Peace
kitt6
(516 posts)started this stand your ground bs.