“At the same time, there has been a major spike in car bombs in Baghdad over the past week, leading some Iraqi officials to claim that militants have infiltrated the capital by hiding among the displaced.” As Muhammad said, “War is deceit.”
ISIS claims twin car bombings in Baghdad that killed 19,” Associated Press, May 3, 2015:
BAGHDAD — The extremist Islamic State group claimed responsibility Sunday for a late-night car bomb attack in the heart of Baghdad that killed at least 19 people, saying it was targeting a Shiite militia.
The extremist group, however, did not shed any light on accusations by Yazidi lawmakers that it had executed at least 25 prisoners of the minority community in the northern city of Tal Afar.
The two car bombs in Baghdad went off about 10 minutes apart late Saturday in the Karrada district, known for its restaurants, cafes and ice cream parlours. Police said the dead and wounded were mainly shoppers and people commemorating the birth of Imam Ali, a key figure in Shiite Islam. Two traffic policemen were among those killed.
The online claim is similar to others the group has issued this past week about bombings in Baghdad, which they describe as revenge for the fighting in nearby Anbar province.
Iraqi forces are engaged in a see-saw battle in Anbar against Islamic State militants, who control some 65 per cent of the province. The fighting has caused 114,000 residents of the regional capital to flee to Baghdad.
At the same time, there has been a major spike in car bombs in Baghdad over the past week, leading some Iraqi officials to claim that militants have infiltrated the capital by hiding among the displaced….
Don McKellar says
We’ve got it bad enough in the modern advanced world with our foolish immigration policies. Imagine if you lived in a moslem majority country. At any time, anybody around you could suddenly get serious and devout about Islam and just start killing those he didn’t think were serious and devout enough! Every day would be tension-filled to just go out and buy some groceries! No doubt this was a very rare occurrence in the past, but with things like the Islamic State and its evil siren call to serious Islam, this kind of thing is ramping up very quickly all over the Middle East.
annieoakley says
Will not be long now until it is here in the US.
Peter Buckley says
Most will disagree with me but I think it’s actually a good thing if IS try to take on Baghdad, which is basically run by Iran. IS must be stopped going North (Kurdistan). They must be stopped going West (Jordan to be used as a “buffer state” by Israel)., but it can go South or East (to Tehran) if it wants. Trying to stop IS will be the nail in the coffin of Iran’s economy, effectively doing the West’s job for them. The West can then move in when the dust has settled. My guess is that this will go on for decades, but the West must resist any temptation or plea to become involved.
I refer readers to the most common-sense article on the Middle East, written when it started to kick off:
“As for the warring Arab Islamic sects, they are set to continue to battle one another, with ready foreign help, over the ruins of the countries once known as Iraq and Syria. This war is just beginning. Any attempts to portray either of the warring sides as “anti-terrorist” or “pro-western” should be stubbornly resisted. Acceptance of such definitions is the entry hall to new policy failures and wasted lives. ISIL and the Quds Force differ in organizational structure, but are similarly anti-western — and similarly vile. They should be left to bleed one another white.”
http://www.meforum.org/4728/second-front-opens-in-the-sunni-shia-war
You know it makes sense, but do Western politicians?
Don McKellar says
I’ve posted many times on here, and many others as well, that a massive internal war across the Middle East, moslems all slaughtering each other, buying their weapons from the US and its allies preferably, will do the world nothing but good. It is an inevitable end point for Islam, anyways. They need to be concentrated on killing each other instead of us. We also need to enable as many one-way trips to join the Islamic State as the idiots want provided they can never, ever return.
The only real reason this isn’t happening is indeed because of our corrupt and weak politicians. They bow to the interests of the Saudis and cower before the Iranians. And they are weak on Iraq and Syria — who don’t have as much oil money to throw around.
More Ham Ed says
Just when leftists think Islam is getting a little more peaceful BAMM BOOM another unjoyful noise from the “religion” of peas. 25753 deadly terror attacks since 9/11 http://www.thereligionofpeace.com (for JW visitors to check-out).
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index_files/crushed.jpg
“Islam: it’s different.”