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Eugene

(61,938 posts)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 10:40 AM Dec 2013

Violence grips Iraq in day of deadly bombings

Source: Al Jazeera

Last updated: 16 Dec 2013 13:52

At least 65 people have been killed and over 100 wounded in a string of deadly attacks across Iraq, security sources told Al Jazeera.

No one has claimed responsibility for Monday's bombings, but rebel groups frequently target civilians and members of the Iraqi security forces to undermine confidence in the country's Shia-led government and agitate sectarian tensions.

The attacks started in the town of Beiji, 180 kilometres north of Baghdad, where a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the main gate of the town police station.

Three other bombers then ran into the station and blew themselves up, killing eight officers and wounding five others, the official said.

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Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/12/violence-grips-iraq-day-deadly-bombings-2013121613316760618.html

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Violence grips Iraq in day of deadly bombings (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2013 OP
ungrateful people ... GWB gave them freedom and democracy cosmicone Dec 2013 #1
 

cosmicone

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1. ungrateful people ... GWB gave them freedom and democracy
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:03 PM
Dec 2013

and now they are resorting to sectarian violence?

No good deed goes unpunished.

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