Iraqi Jihad Roundup.
"Suicide-bomber driven car injures three policemen, a civilian," from KUNA , August 24 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
IRBIL, Aug 24 (KUNA) -- Three Iraqi policemen and a civilian were wounded when a suicide bomber drove a car loaded with explosives into a check-point in Mosul on Sunday....
"Twin blasts in E. Baghdad kill four Iraqis, injure 15," from KUNA, August 24 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
BAGHDAD, Aug 24 (KUNA) -- At least four Iraqi people were killed, including two police personnel, and 15 others were injured Sunday in twin explosions that rocked the Iraqi capital, police sources said.Sources pointed out that the explosion was caused by the detonation of improvised explosive devices targeting a patrol vehicle along a recently reopened sideroad leading to the Ministry of Interior, killing two police officers and injuring two others.
Few minutes later, another explosive device went off as a crowd of people gathered around the scene of the blast, claiming two people's lives and wounding 13 others, as well as causing material damage to nearby cars....
"Nine killed in Iraq violence," from AFP, August 24 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Three bomb attacks and a shootout claimed the lives of nine people and wounded more than two dozen in Iraq on Sunday, security officials said.Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded when a roadside bomb blasted their patrol in the town of Bala Druz, near the restive city of Baquba which has long struggled against Al-Qaeda....
Few minutes later, another explosive device went off as a crowd of people gathered around the scene of the blast, claiming two people's lives and wounding 13 others, as well as causing material damage to nearby cars....
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These double bombings have become increasingly common, and strike me as especially evil, even in the context of blowing up civilians.
While some of the people killed in a second bombing such as this are gawkers, many are not. Many are *rescuers* of the victims of the first bombing--both professionals--police and ambulance drivers; and ordinary passers-by who are trying to save people injured in the first blast.
How anyone can minimize--much less condone--such evil is beyond me. And yet, the outrage against US or coalition forces who accidently injure a civilian while targetting terrorists is much greater, over all, than outrage at this intentional evil.
Note, in the AFP article, our old friend, AFP's favourite adjective for jihad-wracked locations from the Philippines to Thailand to Kashmir to Iraq - "restive".
AFP writes "...near the restive city of Baquba which has long struggled against Al-Qaeda....".
I am getting very, very tired of 'restive' in stories about Jihad; just as tired as I am of the stereotypical use of 'moderate' to describe that Slow Jihadist Arab Muslim gang boss, Mahmoud Abbas.