Iraq attacks and shelling kill 35
Source: Times of India / AFP
BAGHDAD: Violence across Iraq, including shelling of the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, killed 35 people today, as politicians haggle over forming a new governing coalition after April elections.
Iraq is going through its worst protracted spell of violence since it emerged from a brutal Sunni-Shiite conflict that killed tens of thousands in 2006 and 2007, with near-daily attacks plaguing Baghdad and much of the north and west.
The worst of today's bloodshed was concentrated in Fallujah, which has been under the control of anti-government fighters since the beginning of the year.
Shelling in the city, which lies just a short drive west of Baghdad, killed 18 people and wounded 43 others, according to Ahmed Shami, a doctor at Fallujah hospital.
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Leme
(1,092 posts)are you a semi expert or close?
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I heard somewhere that Fallujah was for along, long time sort of a smuggler hangout and such. true?
but I've never heard that before either.
Leme
(1,092 posts)but somewhere on tv... something about Fallujah kind of always being a sort of an outlaw place where smugglers and such had headquarters... might go back centuries.
GeorgeGist
(25,386 posts)Made in the USA
ballyhoo
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Iraq was the US's Parthia. Just watch if that don't happen.
hibbing
(10,355 posts)I will continue to reply to every post on these events that I see. While the idiot son and his corporate pigs that made billions sleep like babies every night.
Peace