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Iraq: Islamic jihadists murder at least 42 with car bomb at checkpoint during rush hour

Mar 10, 2014 5:53 am By Robert Spencer

IraqcarbombNote once again the mainstream media’s unwillingness to name the perpetrator in the headline when the perpetrator is an Islamic jihadist. This time it was a “car bomb attack” that killed at least 42 people. Is that like an asthma attack? Or did the car bomb decide of its own accord to attack these poor people?

In reality, this was another Sunni jihad attack targeting Shi’ites in the Shi’ite-majority city of Hillah. They chose rush hour to maximize the number of the dead.

“Car bomb attack kills at least 42 in Iraq,” from the Associated Press, March 9:

BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber set off his explosive-laden vehicle at a security checkpoint Sunday in southern Iraq, the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed 42 people, officials said. The violence, which comes a few weeks before scheduled elections, is the latest by insurgents bent on destabilizing the country.

The blast struck the entrance of the city of Hillah during morning rush hour as dozens of cars waited to be searched. The explosion killed 21 civilians, including a woman and 12 year old, and 15 security personnel, two police officers said. It wounded at least 115, they said.

The bombing set dozens of cars ablaze, killing those trapped inside. Debris littered the ground, covered by foam sprayed by firefighters trying to extinguish the fire.

Police say the victims’ burns suggested the bomber packed his car with liquid fuel, probably gasoline.

Hillah, a Shiite-dominated city, is located about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of the capital, Baghdad.

Elsewhere Sunday, militants launched attacks just outside the capital against security forces and employees of the state-run oil company, killing six people, police said. They said the assaults wounded 16.

Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures for all the attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information.

Iraq has seen a spike in violence since last April, with the death toll climbing to its highest levels since the worst of the country’s sectarian bloodletting in 2006-2008. The U.N. says 8,868 people were killed in 2013, and more than 1,400 people were killed in January and February of this year.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of an al-Qaida breakaway group that frequently uses car bombs and suicide attacks to target public areas and government buildings in their bid to undermine confidence in the government….

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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 6:31 am

    Media surrender to Wahhabist supremacism! Self-censorship with regard to Islamic terrorism is no less than self-defeat of the West through WHITEWASHING JIHAD. The jihadists rub their hands with glee.

    Yes, the terrorists were part of a NATIONAL movement…not part of INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC JIHADISM.

    The JIHAD in SYRIA is INTERNATIONAL. This local jihad in China will soon bring jihadists from all over the world to die for Mohammed.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 6:48 am

    Meanwhile, the death toll increases in Iraq. No authorities are able to declare the source of the terror…the classical, orthodox doctrine of jihad against disbelievers…political warfare by Muslims until triumph of Islamic supremacism. By whitewashing jihad, the politicians make a cure impossible.

    Wrong diagnosis (the ‘grievance theory’): wrong treatment of the disease. The disease is a mental disorder…Mohammedan supremacism.

  3. duh_swami says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 7:12 am

    It’s an interesting, and deadly, phenomena that Islam hates itself.
    So much so that Mahoundians kill other Mahoundians because they are not Mahoundian enough. This is lethal business. You kill my father, I kill your brother, you kill my brother, I kill your sister. You kill my sister and I kill your mother, You kill my mother I kill your father…and then there were none.

    • Mirren10 says

      Mar 10, 2014 at 7:29 am

      ” You kill my mother I kill your father…and then there were none”

      Yes. If only !

    • revg says

      Mar 10, 2014 at 7:49 am

      It is too bad that both sides cannot lose, or win, depending on how you see it. Mutual assured destruction has a nice ring to it when it comes to inter-Islamic jihad.

      • jim says

        Mar 10, 2014 at 1:24 pm

        Revg, i try to remember to say “slaughter” instead of “murder”.

  4. veggiedog says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 7:51 am

    Sunni and Shiite Muslims, one is true of Mohammad the other is stolen from his Cousin/sun-in-law. Both are off the chart nuts and once the Sunnis wipe out the Shiites they will have more focus on the true non believers. 90% vs. 10%, but think the total number of eacc if their wars with each other have lated so long. A true religion of hatred.

  5. bikeboy says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 9:25 am

    Glee is what Muslim’s have when they kill Dawg Face.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 9:35 am

    In reality, this was another Sunni jihad attack targeting Shi’ites in the Shi’ite-majority city of Hillah. They chose rush hour to maximize the number of the dead.
    ——
    The Shia think they will be safe from the Sunni if only they criticize Israel and shout the enemy of my enemy is my friend and deny the Holocaust to appease Sunni Islam but the Sunni are well aware that the Shia are not true Muslims.
    True Islam is not (compassionate and merciful) and knows that such appeasement is a sign of weakness.

    • jim says

      Mar 10, 2014 at 1:43 pm

      Jay Boo, you and others should explain to me why the sunni are any more islamic than the shia. The sunni claim to love muhammad but slaughtered his grandsons (hussein and hasan) at karbala in 680.
      Also, familiarize yourselves (plural, i saw it earlier) concerning the hadith of the pond of khuum (shia interpretation) and tell me why that is any less sahih than the ahadeeth of bukhari or muslim.
      personally, i don’t like the shia any more than i like the sunni, but i think they have some good points in opposing the sunni, and after becoming more familiar with abu bakr, i tend towards their view of who poisoned mo. (The clincher on that last was sahih bukhari hadith volume 9, book 92, number 388 )

      • jim says

        Mar 10, 2014 at 2:24 pm

        only posted to receive followups to this post.

  7. jack says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 10:45 am

    only one book is as stupid as to teach to kill innocent civilians:
    1 Samuel 15:3
    New International Version (NIV)
    3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

    terrorism is a judeo-christian influence on the Muslim world.

    • bikeboy says

      Mar 10, 2014 at 10:50 am

      When did this stop for them vs todays Islamists?

    • revg says

      Mar 10, 2014 at 11:00 am

      It only seems stupid if you do not have the full context at hand.

    • voegelinian says

      Mar 11, 2014 at 3:15 pm

      The problem with passages like the one in Samuel 1 lies in modern fundamentalist Inerrantist exegesis (and its sadomasochistic counterpart, modern atheism); not in the Bible itself nor in Judaeo-Christianity.

      • voegelinian says

        Mar 11, 2014 at 3:17 pm

        To restore intellectual health about such matters, a good place to start would be Eric Voegelin’s second volume of his Order and History, titled “Israel and Revelation”.

        http://books.google.com/books?id=NDFL50_2ilAC&pg=PA274&lpg=PA274&dq=prophet+samuel+eric+voegelin&source=bl&ots=MDskx-UX7r&sig=Nkm4Qmc_doRjSNGP41is6bJUIkc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=p1kfU_eFBo37oASBoYCoCA&ved=0CF8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=prophet%20samuel%20eric%20voegelin&f=false

  8. ThomasD says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 11:57 am

    It would be a blessing if those muslim idiots would only kill themselves (shiites/sunnis) – once and for all time the world would get rid of this sick crap (islam). But unfortunately they kill innocent people as well.
    When will everybody understand that islam is a sick, wicked and violent ideology. Islam is NO religion! Read the hatebook (quran)! In it you will find the final goal of islam (a global caliphate ruled by sharia law). Nice, isn´t it?
    It was the same with Hitler´s “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle) where he announced his final goal “Das 1000jährige Reich” – The 1000 Years lasting Reich. He wrote it but very few read it… – History 2.0 today.

    • bikeboy says

      Mar 10, 2014 at 12:12 pm

      Too many sunnis, they will kill the shiites, then open season really begins.

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 5:20 pm

    This heinous and murderous bombing in Iraq is the result of jihadist engaging in the violence and killing of militant jihadism of Islam that is taught according to the Quran, 9:111,112. 47:4. Be the Islamic terror groups al Qaeda , Ansar al Islam etc. they all practice the deadly actions of the violence of the jihad Moreover is Islam is represented as a tree then the fruit of this tree are the many deadly Islamic terror groups as those just mentioned. Along with other like minded violence Islamic entities. With this stated the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus do very much apply to this subject. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thisles ? Even so every good tree bringth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Mathew 7:16,17,18,20. [K.J.V.]
    In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14 :6. First John 2:2,23.

    To find out more about the Bible, the Quran and other things about and concerning Islam there is the Christian internet site answering-islam.org

  10. fair_dinkum says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 10:20 pm

    staistically, sunnis are the suicide bombers. shias know there aren’t enough of them (10 % globally) but around 30 -40% in iraq)and they prefer ambush and death squads.
    without knowing further details its difficult to guess, but im thinking sunni suicide bomb and then shia militia attacking govt (sunni) targets. its the standard pattern.

    iran keeps rattling nuclear sabres at the west and at Israel. however, i suspect they are developing nukes as a defence against arabic and sub continental sunni nations. and with a larger amount of shias than any other country. iraq is the fulcrum. bordering with syria and iran, both sunni and shia are being bolstered. and remember, pakistan already has the bomb. and there is no love lost between them and iran. and pakistani jihadis are rushing to the war in syria.
    effectively a battleground of sunni / shia as we watch.

    it will spill into iran and it will burn for years. there is no end to it.

  11. herkey says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 4:18 am

    win win muslims killing muslims not us! wish i was in the used car biz there it is booming big time!

  12. Max Kuenkel says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    This terrorist attacked happened in the town of Hillah. As bad as it was, this was not the worst terrorist attack in that town. The worst was on February 28th, 2005, when a jihadist set off a truck bomb in front of men who were lined up to join the Iraqi police forces, at the recruiting center. 127 dead.

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