Al Qaeda affiliate claims attacks against Shi'ites in Baghdad

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - An al Qaeda affiliate has claimed responsibility for a series of car bombs that killed around 60 people in predominantly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital last week.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which was formed earlier this year through a merger between al Qaeda's Syrian and Iraqi branches, said it had carried out the attacks in response to the Shi'ite-led government's tightening security measures.

Sunni Islamist groups including al Qaeda, which view Shi'ites as non-believers, have been regaining momentum in Iraq, invigorated by a conflict in neighbouring Syria which has brought sectarian tensions across the Middle East to the boil.

"The operations encompassed targets that were carefully selected deep within the rejectionist strongholds inside Baghdad," read a statement posted by the group on militant internet forums, using a derogatory term to refer to Shi'ites.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/09/09/iraq-violence-claim-idINDEE98804Z20130909

[Celefin]

1. Our new allies attacking our common enemy...

...inside the country we liberated from our ally's minority rule, obviously to invigorate them and have them create franchises elsewhere after they had learned our preferred business model. They certainly used the freedom we brought. Success!

[iamthebandfanman]

2. poor shi'ites of iraq.

Remember that one time , after the first gulf war,
when Bush Sr told the Iraqis to rise up against saddam and then when they did we didn't help them at all ?
opting to watch thousands of Shiites getting slaughtered in mass in southern Iraq instead?

[kelliekat44]

3. So AQ will be our ally against Iran? nt