We may be seeing a new tactic from the Zarqawi group in Iraq in favor of twin suicide car bombs. From AFP, "Iraq suicide bombings kill 23, Pakistani hostage released"
BAGHDAD - At least 23 people died and more than 80 were wounded in a series of bomb attacks near a mosque in Baghdad and outside a police academy in the north of the country, security officials said.Amid the violence, Islamabad said a Pakistani hostage held since two weeks had been released, while in Washington controversial politician Ahmed Chalabi said delays in forming a government were playing into the hands of insurgents.
Two explosions Sunday evening in a mixed Shiite-Sunni district of the Iraqi capital apparently targeted an area close to the Shiite Hussayniah al-Beit mosque, killing 16 and wounding 50.
"A bomb exploded and, when people ran out near the Hussayniah al-Beit mosque, a car driven by a suicide bomber ploughed into them," an interior ministry official said.
Earlier, two suicide car bombs went off outside a police academy in Tikrit, killing at least seven people and wounding 37. Police casualties accounted for five of the dead, police and hospital sources said.
The mosque bombing was the latest in a series of attacks on Shiites, with a suicide car bomb exploding outside another Shiite mosque during weekly prayers on Friday, killing nine people and leaving 26 wounded.
The majority Shiites won control of parliament in January 30 elections, while the Sunni Arab minority, which dominated the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein and all previous Iraqi governments, largely boycotted the poll.
The insurgency that has raged in Sunni areas since Saddam's ouster in 2003 has seen a growing resort to sectarian attacks.
Militants loyal to Al-Qaeda's Iraq frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the twin Tikrit attacks in an Internet statement, the authenticity of which could not be verified...
More Islamists killing other Islamists in the name of Allah.
Islam is an evil cult.
As long as they keep on Killing Muslums, I don't see a need to be concerned. They've made their bed, and now they can sleep in it.
Whoever ends up with the bigger pile of bodies will be seen as the most "correct" follower of Islam.
Lovely following.
Moose
Hey Shurki,
Care to explain how this attack was justified? Were these people "collaborators"?
Geoff
Geoff:
They were Shia and in the eyes of the likes of Zarqawi, they were apostates, especially if they participated in elections, which are "haram".
Mr.Hooper at CAIR should take notice,I've said for awhile now that "Profiling" will be accepted by CAIR's followers when it's U.S. Mosques being bombed by the same "True" Muslims.
Once they start coming to the West to punish
the apostates for their "False" version of Islam
there will be little sympathy from non-Muslims
that have endured the years of being called a "Racist" or "Islamophobe" .
BTW,my prediction is that in the begining of these attacks CAIR will blame Non-Muslim bigots
and this will allow more terrorism against Mosques
since DHS and the FBI will be looking for White-people.
This is what will happen because we have Mr.Hooper playing "The Muslim that cried wolf"
and later few people will listen to him when it's real attacks on Muslims.
As long as coalition troops keep surviving and Muslims are devouring their own, no big problem.
Let them have a schism war for as many years as it takes and maybe a few sane (read: disillusioned and exhausted) people will be left who we can really bargain with.