“Saturday’s deadliest bombing took place in the Shiite neighborhood of Abu Dashir, where a suicide attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a checkpoint, killing at least nine people and wounding 19, officials said. Four policemen were among the dead, a police officer said.” That suggests that this is still more Sunni-Shi’ite jihad. Is the Islamic State trying to soften up Baghdad for an invasion?
“Bombings in Iraq’s capital kill at least 27 people,” by Sameer N. Yacoub, Associated Press, July 19, 2014 (thanks to all who sent this in):
BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bombings, including three over a span of less than 10 minutes, killed at least 27 people across Baghdad on Saturday, shaking the fragile sense of security the capital has maintained despite the Sunni militant offensive raging across northern and western Iraq.
Meanwhile in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq’s ailing president returned to the country after more than 18 months abroad for medical treatment following a stroke in late 2012, state TV said. Jalal Talabani is wrapping up his second consecutive term as president, and is not eligible to run again.
Saturday’s attacks in Baghdad are among the most significant in the city since insurgents led by the Islamic State extremist group captured Iraq’s second-largest city Mosul last month at the start of its blitz. After Mosul’s fall, the government moved aggressively to try to secure Baghdad amid fears it might fall as well, and the city has seen few major attacks in recent weeks.
Saturday’s deadliest bombing took place in the Shiite neighborhood of Abu Dashir, where a suicide attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a checkpoint, killing at least nine people and wounding 19, officials said. Four policemen were among the dead, a police officer said.
Later in the day, three car bombs in different neighborhoods of Baghdad went off in less than 10 minutes, hitting the districts of Baiyaa, Jihad and Khazimiyah. The attacks killed at least 15 people and wounded another 42, police officials said.
Another car bomb near a bus stop in Khazimiyah killed three people and wounded 15, police said.
Hospital officials in Baghdad confirmed the casualty figures in all of the attacks.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief journalists.
The Sunni militant blitz, led by the Islamic State extremist group, has pushed into areas west of Baghdad, and also has established a presence in a belt of Sunni areas running south and north of the capital. Baghdad itself has a predominantly Shiite population.
The Iraqi military launched a counteroffensive late last month to try to dislodge insurgents from the city of Tikrit, some 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad. That effort has sputtered, but has managed to secure much of the highway between Tikrit and the city of Samarra, home to one of the most important Shiite shrines. Tikrit itself remains in militant hands….
Gail Griffin says
Question?? Wot happened to all those smart manly men from the site gangs who were strutting in formation with designer face masks on last month in Baghdad? I must have missed an episode.
Gail Griffin says
Shite not site.
Jay Boo says
Islam stinks
If you had left off the final e the spell-checker feature would have missed that too, but it would have been logically correct all the same.
Walter Sieruk says
This Islamic suicide/homicide jihad attack was the outcome of the extreme brainwashing in is done in the mosque and madrasas of people by the imams and mullahs who thoroughly mind program others into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Quran of a sex filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies for the cause of Islam in the Jihad, Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. Such false teachers as these imams and mullahs who very much indoctrinate this type of fiction/myth religious doctrine as of a place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others have been predicted in the Bible. Which reads “For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate {endure} sound and wholesome instruction, but having ears itching [for something that is pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teachers after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking, and to foster the errors they hold, and will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. Furthermore, the man who started this all, Muhammad, was just one of the “many false prophets [who] have gone forth into the world.” First John 4:1. Moreover, the Islamic clerics who declare and teach and Islam as the truth, for proclaiming this false religion as the truth stand accursed of and by God, Galations 1:6-9.
THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE
There is a Christian internet site on the subject of both the Bible and Islam. The site is answering-islam.org
Jay Boo says
Also readers may wish to visit
http://www.persecution.com/
Jan Fourowls says
So what are we doing about it to use our words for anything but preaching to the choir here?
Here’s another of my comment series unlikely to be posted today —
Your [http://wamc.org/post/mass-us-senator-markey-weighs-ukraine-and-gaza] failure to “approve” the comment below would only prove that you’re part of the TTHT (Taqiyya Trojan Horse Tactics) brigade.
Consistent with the subtext of his remarks here, Senator Edward Markey, Democrat from Massachusetts, also and not coincidentally on the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations, is co-sponsoring S. 2219 with New York Democrat Congressman Hakeem Jeffries sponsoring H.R. 3878. See https://www.facebook.com/ConcernedAmericansAgainstTheTakeoverOfAmerica/posts/529458160496134. Senator Markey by his remarks about the plane shot down over the Ukraine and about Gaza utterly fails to disclose: (1) the likelihood that Ukrainian Muslim terrorists (with the most to gain from the chaos, and also being unwelcome to non-Muslim “separatists” who know from experience about Islamic terror tactics and are fighting in self-defense against the Muslim terrorists) misused stolen Russian equipment to shoot down the plane, or (2) the ongoing deception and violence of Hamas as a terrorist organization by its 1988 charter (never abrogated), currently requiring its own soldier-citizens in Gaza under Hamas threat to be human shields to Israel’s cross-fire in self-defense after Hamas initiated aggression. Senator Markey is a hypocrite and oligarch who like POTUS betrays the American people in foreign press commentary as well as in Washington, D.C.
As I get informally, behind-the-scenes censored more and more on the internet, I am emailing all my personal contacts and lists with messages like the following:
“Hope you’re having a beautiful Saturday! Thinking of you, wishing only good to all you love.
This email forwards information and a guide to action for anybody who might be similarly moved under rapidly escalating Islamist geopolitical encroachments and new risks to Americans by stealth jihad. We now face a new potential to have our Constitutional freedoms eroded internally through elected officials following the overtly demoralizing terrorism of 9/11, Fort Hood and the Boston Marathon Bombing. (The fact that some legislation tracking websites publish a small likelihood of this anti-freedom legislation passing could be designed to lull us into inaction. In a “taqiyya” world, nothing said or printed can be taken at face value, only what is done or not done.)
There’s a lot of information in the forwarded email. In summary without the provided context, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries sponsoring H.R. 3878 is a Democrat, New Yorker and Muslim.
His co-sponsor in the Senate for S. 2219, Senator Edward Markey, is a Democrat and Liberal from Massachusetts, also and not coincidentally on the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations.
It continues to go increasingly wrong in the UK where Muslims and their apologists who are politically prominent citizens twist more and more control of government into alignment with principles of Sharia law instead of the rule of Western civilization’s law. In America we still have the Constitution which the UK lacks, and which our forebears fought the British to obtain. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries’ bill, aided and abetted by traitorous Senator Markey, is an end-run around the Constitution that many bloggers I read see as a “line in the sand” we should not allow our nation to cross.
I hope and pray Americans will not believe falsely “it cannot happen here” and by inaction not even let their elected leaders know we object as a patriotic people.
And now I’m going to go enjoy the rest of my Saturday while I’m still free to do so!”
gravenimage says
“Saturday’s deadliest bombing took place in the Shiite neighborhood of Abu Dashir, where a suicide attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a checkpoint…
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*Saturday’s deadliest bombing”—this is what life is like under Islam.
And note—this happened on Saturday, the day after pious Muslims get fired up with violent “Kutbahs” at the Mosque on Friday. *Ugh*.