Iraqi police: Bombs kill 17 Near Shiite Mosques

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Source: Associated Press

Iraqi police: Bombs kill 17 near Shiite mosques

By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer
14 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - Suicide bombers targeted Shiite worshippers as they left morning prayers Thursday at two Baghdad mosques, killing 17 people and injuring more than 30 others, police said. In a separate attack, gunmen fatally shot six people as they were traveling in a minibus in Wajihiyah, a town about 60 miles north of Baghdad.

The dead included two children, three women and a man, police in Diyala province said. Another woman and her small child were injured. The bombings in Baghdad occurred as Shiite worshippers were celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

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In the deadliest attack, a suicide car bomber in a white Mercedes sedan detonated his explosives about 20 yards from a mosque in Zafaraniyah in southeastern Baghdad. He set off the bomb when Iraqi soldiers tried to stop him from approaching the building, police said. That attack killed 12 people, including three Iraqi soldiers, and injured 23, police said.

In the other attack, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt as worshippers were leaving the Rasoul mosque in the capital's eastern New Baghdad district. Five people died and nine were injured, police said.

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1. Haven't there been quite a number of these bombings

recently. Each of which, if they happened in some country other than the now "peaceful" Iraq, would garner some attention from the MSM... but these happen and there aren't photos or video... nothing on the MSM, so it's as if they never happened. I suspect we will hear about them again after the election. Right now, they are inconvenient to the meme that the "surge worked" and "victory is at hand" and so must be scrubbed.

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2. recommend -- the surge is not working. nt