Last Updated 8/10 7:30 PM EST
At least 50 civilians have been killed and over 250 wounded in a series of bombings across Iraq which were eerily similar to bombings on Friday which killed 46. Once again, the seemingly coordinated strikes targeted Shi’ite neighborhoods, and included several smaller bombings in Baghdad and one major one near Mosul.
In the village of Khazna just east of Mosul a pair of truck bombs exploded simultaneously near one another, killing at least 28 and wounding some 138 others. Khazna is the home of the Shabak minority of Iraq, a small group with a Shi’ite style faith.
Nine additional bombings were reported in Baghdad, principally in Shi’ite neighborhoods, though a bombing in the Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah targeted a member of one of the US-backed paramilitary groups. This likely means the Awakening Council but at this point the identity of the man hasn’t been revealed.
Iraqi officials have recently expressed concern that the attacks on Shi’ite targets mean a renewed campaign by al-Qaeda in Iraq, a group which had been relatively quiet since 2006. The attacks in and around Mosul may be an attempt to play on rising tensions between the Kurdish and Arab populations of the area.
I know you’re irrevocably committed to the Pentagon’s “sectarian civil war” propaganda, but Iraq never had 'sectarian violence' before America invaded and got stuck in a hopeless guerrilla war.
There’s also a problem with your ‘magic bomb theory’: it’s absurd. In a heavily intermarried country where mixed neighborhoods were normal, you can’t blow up hundreds of random people and only kill members of one religious group who have no connections to anyone else. The ‘sectarian violence’ is the how the occupation has responded to the guerrilla war; massive collective punishment of the civilian population with an eventual goal of partition. All heartily endorsed by the warbots here!
Many Iraqis blame these bombings on the occupation: The IR [Iraqi Resistance] has condemned and condemns attacks on civilians, we do not blow up markets filled with innocent lives. This is a propaganda tactic by the occupier to discredit us. Suicide bombings against Iraqi civilians, beheadings, car bombs and the rest are all the work of the Occupation, the mercenaries, the Mossad, the Iranian militias and its sectarian squads. On many occasions, cars have been stopped at checkpoints only to find out that during their search they (US forces and militias) have planted bombs in them without the car owner’s knowledge.
The IR does not do such things. We need the Iraqi people, all of the Iraqi people, it is from them that we draw force and support, how can we target them ? We are a Resistance movement against the Occupation (both American and Iranian) not against the Iraqi people. We need our people. How can we kill our own people ?
I know you’re irrevocably committed to the Pentagon’s “sectarian civil war” propaganda, but Iraq never had 'sectarian violence' before America invaded and got stuck in a hopeless guerrilla war.
There’s also a problem with your ‘magic bomb theory’: it’s absurd. In a heavily intermarried country where mixed neighborhoods were normal, you can’t blow up hundreds of random people and only kill members of one religious group who have no connections to anyone else. The ‘sectarian violence’ is the how the occupation has responded to the guerrilla war; massive collective punishment of the civilian population with an eventual goal of partition. All heartily endorsed by the warbots here!
Many Iraqis blame these bombings on the occupation: The IR [Iraqi Resistance] has condemned and condemns attacks on civilians, we do not blow up markets filled with innocent lives. This is a propaganda tactic by the occupier to discredit us. Suicide bombings against Iraqi civilians, beheadings, car bombs and the rest are all the work of the Occupation, the mercenaries, the Mossad, the Iranian militias and its sectarian squads. On many occasions, cars have been stopped at checkpoints only to find out that during their search they (US forces and militias) have planted bombs in them without the car owner’s knowledge.
The IR does not do such things. We need the Iraqi people, all of the Iraqi people, it is from them that we draw force and support, how can we target them ? We are a Resistance movement against the Occupation (both American and Iranian) not against the Iraqi people. We need our people. How can we kill our own people ?
I know you’re irrevocably committed to the Pentagon’s “sectarian civil war” propaganda, but Iraq never had 'sectarian violence' before America invaded and got stuck in a hopeless guerrilla war.
There’s also a problem with your ‘magic bomb theory’: it’s absurd. In a heavily intermarried country where mixed neighborhoods were normal, you can’t blow up hundreds of random people and only kill members of one religious group who have no connections to anyone else. The ‘sectarian violence’ is how the occupation has responded to the guerrilla war; massive collective punishment of the civilian population with an eventual goal of partition. All heartily endorsed by the warbots here!
Many Iraqis blame these bombings on the occupation: The IR [Iraqi Resistance] has condemned and condemns attacks on civilians, we do not blow up markets filled with innocent lives. This is a propaganda tactic by the occupier to discredit us. Suicide bombings against Iraqi civilians, beheadings, car bombs and the rest are all the work of the Occupation, the mercenaries, the Mossad, the Iranian militias and its sectarian squads. On many occasions, cars have been stopped at checkpoints only to find out that during their search they (US forces and militias) have planted bombs in them without the car owner’s knowledge.
The IR does not do such things. We need the Iraqi people, all of the Iraqi people, it is from them that we draw force and support, how can we target them ? We are a Resistance movement against the Occupation (both American and Iranian) not against the Iraqi people. We need our people. How can we kill our own people ?