They were “targeting an area where many Shiite Muslims are known to gather and warned of ‘worse’ to come.” But this just highlights that they don’t have the strength to mount an actual invasion of Baghdad.
“IS claims responsibility for Baghdad mall attack,” by Susannah George, Associated Press, January 11, 2016 (thanks to Bulldog):
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Baghdad mall attack that killed 18 people on Monday. Gunmen stormed into the Jawhara Mall after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at its entrance.
Iraqi officials say the attack which lasted over an hour, killed at least 18 people and wounded 50 in the city’s mainly Shiite east.
The IS statement, posted online shortly after the attack, said a car bomb and four IS fighters carried out the attack, targeting an area where many Shiite Muslims are known to gather and warned of “worse” to come. Iraqi officials say the attack was carried out by seven men, one of whom died when he detonated his explosive vest at the start of the attack. The conflicting accounts could not immediately be reconciled.
Iraqi officials initially described the attack as a hostage situation, estimating that 50 people were trapped inside the complex. But Iraqi forces soon surrounded the building and landed troops on the roof. They clashed with the attackers inside, killing two of them, and arresting the other four.
At least four police officers were among those killed in the assault, which lasted around an hour and a half, according to police and medical officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.
Following the attack, authorities shut down the city’s highly fortified Green Zone, home to a number of foreign embassies and most of the country’s political elite. A number of major roads, shopping malls and bridges around the Iraqi capital were also closed for fear of follow-up attacks.
Also on Monday evening, a car bomb in southeast Baghdad in a crowded market area killed five and wounded 12, according to hospital and police officials.
Another deadly attack was carried out in the town of Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles (90 kilometers) north of Baghdad in Diyala province. A double suicide bombing at a cafe killed 24 and wounded 52, according to hospital and police officials. Police officials say the cafe was frequented by militia fighters under the government-sanctioned Popular Mobilization Forces and many fighters are among the dead….

gravenimage says
Islamic State murders 18 with car bomb and jihad suicide attack at Baghdad mall
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This sounds like the attack on the Kenyan mall. Look for more and more of this Muslim savagery all over the world.
Linde Barrera says
Remember when Jane Fonda went into Vietnam and broadcast to the US forces how they were committing murder of civilians and that the US soldiers should not be there? Well, I wish Jane Fonda, acting as President Obama’s spokeswoman, would go into Iraq and Syria now and broadcast that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam.
gravenimage says
Linde, the brainless Jane Fonda blames Jihad terrorism on “the patriarchy”:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/03/06/jane-fonda-patriarchy-is-partially-to-blame-for-acts-of-terrorism/
Singh the Sikh says
Unfortunately there will be similar attacks in western cities soon. Once beautiful cities will be reminiscent of Karachi and Beirut because Jihadists never give up once they gain a foothold. They have no qualms testing the limits of western endurance. In fact they have put the west to the test and found it to be hesitant, uncertain and afraid to do, what need to be down, which has been emboldening. The Jihadists sense weakness, which is like blood to a shark. Jihadists are now in the heart of what they consider enemy territory. They are within striking distance, the infiltration aided and abetted by Merkel, Obama, and Cameron rolling out the red carpet to the enemy forces in what can only be described as a traitorous and seditious act. The full impact of a flawed migration policy stemming from wilful ignorance about Islam’s supremacist ideology is yet to be felt. It’s only a matter of time before the next big explosion. Leaders are unmoved by innocent civilian deaths. How else to explain the perennial lack of decisive action even in the face of killings, maiming and mass sexual assaults and rape of citizens. What else will it take to move leaders into action?
mortimer says
What? DID THE SHI’ITES DRAW ANY CARTOONS POKING FUN AT ISLAM?
spartan says
Islam, the “religion of peace” so beloved of Western leaders, has demonstrated yet again how it wages “peace – with carnage, bloodshed, cruelty and misery. Islam is at war with all the rest of humanity – and itself. It will satisfy its lust for violence only when it has exterminated the last human left on the planet in a final act of suicide. Then millions of Muslims will carry on their jihad in paradise where they will fight to extermination over the virgins available for rape. Eternal jihad…..Allahu akhbar!
Walter Sieruk says
This jihad suicide/homicide bombing is the heinous and tragic outcome of a jihadist Muslim having a strong faith in the Koran which contains the absurd and irrational doctrine of a sexual paradise with many virgins,houris,, in it for the male Muslim dies dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad a a “martyr.” This far-fetched doctrine may be found the Koran in 44:4. 55:56. 78:31.Faith is this Koranic doctrine of sex–filled brothel is not based not either logic or reason but on strong emotion and powerful feelings. So faith in Islam which in on the Koran is not rational or a reason based faith. This is thus a reminder of what Benjamin Franklin printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK Which is that “The way see see by faith is to shut the eye of reason..”
MTMLA says
Maybe it’s because of Israel, or the US, or poverty, or lack of job as Mary Hart said.., how many more excuses the apologist will have for the violence in islam? After the Europeans bent backwards to greet them and support and protect them, at the expense of their own native citizens, what did they get in return ? Bombs, jihad, sexual attacks, threats of decapitation and more threats the would fill a horror novel.
SpiritOf1683 says
It could hardly be because of Israel, the US or lack of jobs that the Armenian Genocides were carried out, or the beheading of almost 1,000 males of the Banu Qurayza tribe by Mohammed, or the Hindu Kush massacres. They all have one thing in common – Islam.