Wave of Bombings Batters Iraq in Deadliest Attacks in Months
At Least 92 Killed on Eve of US Pullout Anniversary
This time last year, the US finally completed its withdrawal of military forces from Iraq, bringing an end to the war’s regular appearances on television news in America. Terror was virtually non-existent when the US invaded in 2003, and many hoped it would be again after they left.
But the mess made in Iraq has lingered, with terror attacks actually on the rise late this year, as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and other factions get a shot in the arm from the US-backed civil war in neighboring Syria.
The ability of those factions to hit virtually everywhere within Iraq was on display again today, as bombings nationwide killed at least 92, wounded hundreds of others, and marked the deadliest single day in months.
Strikes targeted army patrols, checkpoints and police stations, and in some cases apparently random civilians, another day of ugly violence in a nation which has seen a solid decade of them now.
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Pashtun
December 17th, 2012 at 10:15 pm
The terror act in Iraq is funded and carried out by Saudi Arabia on BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES. The terror in Muslim countries are designed by the US and its allies to destroy Islamic societies so they canpartition and erect 'greater Israel' , and to control their resources and their market. Did you have mass killings in Syria two years ago? NO. Now US/Israel/Britain will continue mass killings funded by Saudi Arabia and carried out by CIA trained terrorists, Al Qaeda. The majority of terrors in the region are the work of US, Israel, Saudi Arabia against the population. US is angry that was kicked out of Iraq and does not have the kind of influence she wants, therefore he continue mass killings. People must form a FRONT AGAINST THESE MASS MURDERERS.
mojo
December 17th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
These are the reminder of sunny terrorists once fight Americans, now they are used for U.S being able to find a way back into Iraq. And their leader seating in turkey having fun with Turkish government watching the killing of innocent Iraqis, so as their masters in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and that Rat Mussen from Denmark. Look you idiots.., you been played and fooled, to them (the western government) you have no value but a disposable government.