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Iraqi Insurgents Unleash String of Bombings, Kill 40 During Muslim Holiday

Oct. 27, 2012 5:51pm

(TheBlaze/AP) — Iraqi insurgents unleashed a string of bombings and other attacks primarily targeting the country’s Shiite community on Saturday, leaving at least 40 dead in a challenge to government efforts to promote a sense of stability by preventing attacks during a major Muslim holiday.

The bloodshed appeared to be the worst in Iraq since Sept. 9, when insurgents launched a wave of bombings and other attacks that left at least 92 dead in one of the country’s bloodiest days this year.

The attacks underscored the difficulties facing the country’s leadership as it struggles to keep its citizens safe. Authorities had increased security in hopes of preventing attacks during the four-day Eid al-Adha celebrations, when people are off work and families gather in public places.

Iraqi Insurgents Unleash String of Bombings During Eid al Adha

Ammar al-Hakim, foreground, leader of Iraq’s largest Shiite party, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, prays during the first day of Eid al-Adha in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo: AP)

The deadliest attacks struck in the evening in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. Police said a car packed with explosives blew up near a market, killing 12 and wounding 27. Half an hour later, a second car bomb went off in one of Sadr city’s bus stations, killing 10 and injuring 31.

Earlier in the day, a bomb exploded near playground equipment that had been set up for the holiday in a market on the capital’s outskirts in the eastern neighborhood of Bawiya. Police officials said eight people were killed, including four children. Another 24 people, including children, were wounded, they added.

“Nobody expected this explosion because our neighborhood has been living in peace, away from the violence hitting the rest of the capital,” said Bassem Mohammed, a 35-year-old father of three in the neighborhood who was startled by the blast.

Iraqi Insurgents Unleash String of Bombings During Eid al Adha

Iraqis inspect damages after multiple mortars struck the Chikuk neighbourhood in Baghdad. (Photo: Getty Images)

“We feel sad for the children who thought that they would spend a happy time during Eid, but instead ended up getting killed or hurt.”

Elsewhere, a bomb attached to a bus carrying Iranian Shiite pilgrims killed five people and wounded nine, according to police. The bomb, hidden on the underside of the bus, detonated as the pilgrims were heading to a Shiite shrine in Baghdad to mark the holiday.

Authorities have said they planned to increase the number of checkpoints, shut some roads and deploy extra personnel during the holiday period.

They are also relying more on undercover intelligence agents, said Lt. Col. Saad Maan Ibrahim, a spokesman for the interior ministry. He emphasized that both bombings took place on the edge of the capital rather than in densely populated areas.

“The terrorists apparently weren’t able to get to the heart of the city. So they chose to attack soft targets on the outskirts,” he said.

Iraqi Insurgents Unleash String of Bombings During Eid al Adha

People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in the Shiite neighborhood of Shula in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo: AP)

In the northern city of Mosul, gunmen broke into the houses of two Shabak families, killing a boy and his parents in one and a mother and daughter in the other, according to police. A bomb exploded near the house of another Shabak family, wounding six family members.

Shabaks are ethnically Turkomen and Shiite by religion. Most Shabaks were driven out of Mosul by Sunni militants during the sectarian fighting a few years ago.

In Tuz Khormato, about 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded near in a neighborhood with a Turkomen Shiite majority. Mayor Shalal Abdoul said 11 people were wounded, including three children.

Medics in nearby hospitals confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Iraqi Insurgents Unleash String of Bombings During Eid al Adha

Women look through the damaged window of their house after a car bomb explosion in the Shiite neighborhood of Shula in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo: AP)

Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice, is a major Muslim holiday that commemorates what Muslims believe was the Prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail, the Biblical Ishmael, as a test of his faith from God. Christians and Jews believe another of Abraham’s sons, Isaac, was the one almost sacrificed.

The holiday, which began Friday, marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Muslims worldwide typically slaughter lambs and other animals to commemorate the holiday, sharing some of the meat with the poor.

Violence has ebbed across Iraq, but insurgents frequently attack security forces and civilians in an attempt to undermine the country’s Shiite-led government.

Holidays are a particular time of concern for security forces. A wave of attacks shortly before another Muslim holiday in August, Eid al-Fitr, killed more than 90 people in one of the deadliest days in Iraq this year.

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  • cosmic dogma
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 11:29pm

    You know you’re a muslim when your idea of a fun holiday is murdering innocents. Yea! Go jihad!

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  • Steel
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 10:09pm

    Here’s just another glaring example of the “peaceful” Muslim religion. Their beliefs urge them to kill. That’s “peaceful”? How ignorant can these cave dwelling neanderthals be? Oh, just wait a minute and you’ll see – it always gets worse day by day. And the people that are doing all this bombing are NOT insurgents. They are your simple, everyday Muslim nut cases, doing what the like doing best – killing their own people. How can we waste our young military people on people who are so insane? We should just air drop the money we are spending on the war all over the country and let them murder each other until there are none left. Then we can THINK about helping the survivors rebuild – maybe. To continue pouring our precious resources into that Middle East sewer makes us nearly as nuts as the loons that inhabit that cesspool part of the world. The dregs of humanity live there, and we continue to allow them to spawn. Are we stupid, or what? Better we should put birth control medication in all their water and save a lot of American lives and money!

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    • PaulreveresDarknight
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 11:45pm

      Everybody is on our welfaresystem. Why have 2nd amendment treaty with UN and be a smuggling b|+€h. Is Russy’m in on gun fun too?

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  • RaydocX
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 10:05pm

    Even when it was Protestants vs Catholics the terrorist targets were adults… Targeting a playground? Not a verybreligious thing to do, and no western nation or Christian or atheist to blame, just bigotry and hatred in the name of religion…

    Save the women and children, let the rest have their holy war, and the winner rule over the ashes

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  • Watchyer6
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:04pm

    That’s how Muslims celebrate their holidays. They have shiite for brains.

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  • GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:55pm

    Religion of peace…pigs being pigs. 40? It’s a start….

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  • woodyee
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:49pm

    Killing 40…

    Little cultists just worshiping the devil by being devilish…

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  • toomuchgovt
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:27pm

    This is off topic but where are the woman in the prayer service?

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    • Gorp
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:36pm

      YES! They have Rights over there too…

      Never Mind

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    • QuincySmith
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:36pm

      Heard bill clinton was in town.

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    • LeadNotFollow
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:47pm

      .
      Muslim women are not allowed to pray alongside of the men. Women are considered second class citizens to Muslim men. They have very few rights.

      Even when praying in a Mosque, the men occupy the large elaborate prayer room and the women use a smaller, less elaborate room.

      Muslim women will wake up and rise up some day.

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    • dublinthewagons
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:49pm

      All because of a U-TUBE video.
      In the name of Islam. The religion of pease.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:51pm

      The Religion of pieces is still at it. Always will be…If it’s a “religious holiday” you can count on carnage.
      Maybe if we’d just leave them all alone, they’d exterminate each other?
      Iraq is in tumult. The idea we could go in there and transform them into a bunch of peace-loving, tolerant, civilized people….. What a complete waste of American blood & treasure.

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    • GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:53pm

      @Too

      They took the opportunity to run away….

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:22pm

    .
    Some Holiday. A sick disgusting cult and Holiday.
    A Palestinian boy is reflected in a pool of cattle blood after watching the slaughter of a cow for the Eid al-Adha feast in the east of Gaza City.
    Look how sad the boy is. Photo below.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/oct/26/eid-al-adha-in-pictures#/?picture=398400043&index=6

    Men drag home a sheep bought at an outdoor livestock market in Bishkek
    Photo below.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/oct/26/eid-al-adha-in-pictures#/?picture=398400047&index=8

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:09pm

      what? they dont get their food in pre packaged plastic???

      such barbarism

      ( guess you have never seen how our food is prepared )

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  • drenfroe
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:14pm

    These people know nothing but violence and death. This is what they bring worldwide, hatred and destruction without conscience. They can’t understand tolerence or love.

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    • LeadNotFollow
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:48pm

      .
      We’ve got to vote out the Muslim in the White House.

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      LeadNotFollow  
    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:06pm

      “This is what they bring worldwide, hatred and destruction without conscience. They can’t understand tolerence or love.”

      If you take a step back and think about American history over the last 50 years, you cannot deny that this applies to America’s foreign policy as well

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    • 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:07pm

      SOYBURGER is now taking his talking points right out of Moochelle’s notebook. Soy, you are truly a pathetic idiot.

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      2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT  
    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 10:40pm

      true or not true – that is all that matters. Even a blind pig finds a nut sometimes

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  • neverending
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:57pm

    Maybe we can send barry boy there to offer up his condolences.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 9:35am

      …stripped necced and without bailout-funds…see how long his head will be attached…?

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  • Metallicat
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:56pm

    Little known fact,Obama did not end the war in Iraq. US troops left according to the timeline set by George Bush. Obama tried to extend their stay,but even failed at that.

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  • scrapadapolis
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:42pm

    first didnt go through….You Tube “what islam is not” very scary but happining..

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  • scrapadapolis
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:40pm

    you tube “what islam is not” all of your questions will be answered.Very scary..

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  • momrules
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:39pm

    There will be no peace with Islam until the Antichrist makes peace for a short while.
    No government, no sanctions, no pleading, talking, reasoning or appeasement will stop them.

    Their hatred and willingness to kill and die for Allah runs soul deep.

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  • possom
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:38pm

    Happy Holidays!

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  • RodT82721
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:30pm

    I wonder if anyone told Barry about this. After all Barry is running around telling his student audiences that he has ended the violence in Iraq.
    Maybe he needs to send a memo to someone over there.

    Just what is an insurgent in Iraq now?
    Someone that’s looking for some freebies, by blowing up their leaders?

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    • kindling
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:36pm

      I think he should go over there and tell them in person he has made everything better. BTW, he should not have any security, after all ambassador Stevens didn’t need any.

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:47pm

      @Rod
      Not every article is Obama’s fault. Obama did not tell everyone that he ended the violence in Iraq….He ended the violence against American soldiers by removing them from the country. We are supposedly out of Iraq and thank God.

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  • M13
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:27pm

    Muslim jihadists killing other Muslim jihadists, I’m happy for them.

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    • neverending
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:55pm

      Yeah – may they do it over and over and over again.

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    • AlwaysAmazed
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:23am

      So this is one of those “Good News – Bad News” stories, isn’t it…

      PS I sure wish I could figure out this Date/Time/Reply system.

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  • ellietoo
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:18pm

    Muslims killing Muslims. It shows how truly offensive the religion is. They will kill anyone who doesn’t agree with their way of thinking and point to their book as the reason they do it.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:15pm

    And so Iran destabalizes the region even more, and gradually makes more inroads to control that nation via proxies and puppets.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:49pm

      There is certainly nobody there to stop that from happening. Its as if tossed the keys to Iran to move in eventually.

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  • barber2
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:14pm

    Ah, another Muslim holiday : too bad they don’t celebrate with fireworks instead of bombs.

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  • DWilliams08
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:13pm

    Ah, the holidays. They’re back upon us before you know it.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:12pm

    We should’ve continued to back Saddam Hussein like we did in the 80′s when the Iraqi’s were at war with Iran.At least they were killing each other and we wouldn’t have had to invade Iraq just let them continue their war. Iran will step in the power vacuum that we created by taking out Hussein and voila you have just created more Islamist’s.

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    • WarMunger_Al
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:58pm

      yeah, but less capable islamists. Imagine the region with sadam still in power, Eqypt under the muslim brotherhood, syria in Chaos, along with Yemen, etc….Not hard to imagine Iran and Iraq putting differences aside to wipe out israel and any remaining US influence out of the region

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:27pm

      That’s my point if Hussein would have remained in power I don’t necessarily think they would have joined forces with Iran against Israel,their common enemy. Assuming Mubarak was still in control of Egypt the MB wouldn’t be in power today. I know about the ‘project’ that Beck has exposed that details how all these lunatics in the middle east will join forces to eliminate Israel and America.What I’m saying is if Mubarak and Hussein remained in power the region would at least be stable and not radicalized,IMO.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:11pm

    Are those magic carpets in the 1st photo….

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  • SCREW-WINDOWS
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:09pm

    Someone should seriously inform them Virgins are running really low these days so there will have to be cut backs.

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  • ModerationIsBest
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 5:58pm

    The religion of peace is at it again.

    I extend my condolences to those who lost loved ones in these attacks. Hopefully they can recover and live peaceful lives.

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    • Ohello
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:16pm

      @Moderationisbest:

      Moderation is not best, right principles are best. Sometimes moderation is the right principle, but mostly moderation is like putting just a little dung in your soup. Not so much as you’d notice, but you certainly would not eat it if you knew about it.

      As for the Iraqi bombings, it’s nice to know there were no Americans causing it this time, even Bush is not at fault. Sunni on Shiite, but remember Shiites are in league with the Iranians. In fact, it may be Iran on Iraq if you ignore the religious links. I pray for the innocents, but can’t see them the corrupt that are blocking the view.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:48pm

      What are you talking about?

      We eat things all the time that are disgusting by themselves, but because they add flavor we eat them.

      You are arguing against cultural preferences not a philosophy for life.

      Secondly

      Who decides what are “right principles?”

      Only by accepting the possibility that you are wrong can you really decide what may or may not be “right principles.”

      For example, I would argue that accepting that a human sacrifice was necessary to save humans from an eternity of torture isn’t a “right principle.”

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    • sablegsd
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:50am

      no peace in pisslam. ever.

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