Associated Press": No one in Iraq feels safe

Associated Press": No one in Iraq feels safe



2013-09-22 translation Abdul Ali Salman

Two suicide bombers, one was in a car packed with explosives and the other came on foot, beating a group of tents consolation councils, which were crowded in one of the neighborhoods in Baghdad. The attack was the deadliest in a series of attacks that have hit Iraq and claimed at least 92 people on Saturday.

These attacks, which were the recent months, which has seen escalating violence is a chilling reminder of the determination of the rebels of igniting sectarian conflict more than a decade after the US-led invasion the United States.

Despite the calls for restraint issued by the leaders of Shiite and Sunni politicians thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violent attacks in recent months and the bloodshed reached unprecedented levels since 2008.

The attack on the funeral of the largest terrorist attacks on civilians in Iraq in recent years. This occurred before sunset in the densely populated neighborhood of al-Sadr.

Police said at least 72 people were killed and more than 120 injured in the attack. And according to the police version there was a bomber driving a car near the tents before detonating the deadly payload, while another came on foot to blow himself up nearby.

The explosions ignited the fire in the tents and several cars nearby, which led to the towering plume of thick black smoke over the city.
The Sheikh Fartusi Star, a mourners' I saw several charred bodies on the ground and flames in tents and cars burned while the wounded screaming from pain. It was a terrible sight, has turned the funeral into hell.
Sheikh said the first explosion occurred during the presentation dinner in one of the tents set up in tribute to the memory of one of the members of the tribe Fartusi.

It is estimated that more than 500 people were present.

And viewed a small civilian trucks loaded with victims while ambulances were accelerated to the scene which launches high alarm sounds.

Said Hussein Abdul Khaliq, a government employee who lives near the site of the explosion: the funeral crowded the tents while the sound of explosions.

He talked about his vision several dead bodies on the ground, and wounded women and children.

He said that the clothes several victims were soaked with blood and firefighters were leaving the scene to fill their cars with water in a struggle to contain the massive fire.

He says Hussein Abdel-Khalek ?This was and not a military or ministry building, however, was a target place, and this indicates that there is no place or a safe in Iraq.

After less than two hours of the attack on the Council of Solace, hit another car bomb explosion commercial street in the near Ur neighborhood of Sadr City, killing nine people and wounding 14 others, police said.

Earlier the same day, insurgents launched a suicide attack on police headquarters in the city of Baiji, 115 km north of Baghdad.

Police said the guards were able suicide bomber killed one, but three others were able to blow up explosive belts inside the compound, killing seven policemen and wounding 21 others.

In other violence, gunmen killed two prison guards after breaking into their homes in a village near the restive city of Mosul early Saturday.

Two soldiers were killed and four others wounded when a bomb exploded on the side of the road when their convoy in Mosul.

The medics at nearby hospitals, the number of victims.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.

Frequently targeted branch of al-Qaeda in Iraq's Shiite civilians and security forces in an attempt to undermine public confidence in the government in Baghdad.

The violence came Saturday in sync with buckets in Kurdistan voters cast their votes in the local elections for the Legislative Council consisting of 111 seats in the Kurdistan region. Iraqi Kurds seek to enhance their independence and isolate pocket booming from the growing violence that haunts the rest of the country.

The increased frequency of violent attacks in the provinces of Iraq outside the Kurdish region sharply since security forces carried out a crackdown on Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq in April.

The Iraqi Sunni Arabs protesting against the Shi'ite-led government since late last year, under the pretext of being discriminated against and criticize the application of strict measures to combat terrorism targeting their community.

The Sunni extremists have sought to take advantage of those tensions between Sunnis and Shiites, which ignited sectarian divisions, a reflection of the civil war in neighboring Syria.

The United Nations statistics show that more than 4 thousand people were killed in violent attacks in the period between April / April and August / August, and another 489 people were killed in the September / September, according to the tally by The Associated Press.

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