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Scores killed in Iraq attacks
At least 93 people killed across the country, many of them Shia pilgrims
gathered in Baghdad for a religious event.
Last Modified: 13 Jun 2012 19:37
At least 93 people have been killed in a series of bombings and shootings
across Iraq, with many of the attacks targeting Shia pilgrims during a major
religious festival, police and hospital sources say.
One of the deadliest blasts on Wednesday occurred in the Kadhimiyah area of
north Baghdad, where tens of thousands had gathered to mark the anniversary of
Imam Moussa al-Kadhim's death.
"A group of pilgrims were walking and passed by a tent offering food and drinks
when suddenly a car exploded near them," said Wathiq Muhana, a policeman whose
patrol was stationed near the blast.
"People were running away covered with blood and bodies were scattered on the
ground," he said.
Three other blasts targeted pilgrims in Karada district, raising the total
death toll in the capital to at least 30.
The annual pilgrimage sees hundreds of thousands of Shias converge on Baghdad
on foot to commemorate the 8th century death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim.
Two nearly simultaneous car bombs also killed seven pilgrims and wounded 34 in
the Shia town of Balad, north of Baghdad, officials said.
Police targeted
In the southern mainly Shia city of Hilla, two bombs, including one detonated
by a suicide car bomber, exploded outside restaurants frequented by police,
killing 22 people and wounding 38.
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"When a minibus packed with policemen stopped near the restaurants, a car
exploded near the bus," said Maitham Sahib, owner of a restaurant in Hilla near
the blast. "It's heart breaking. It is just sirens, and screams of wounded
people."
Separately in the capital, three federal policemen were assassinated by unknown
gunmen at their checkpoint in Saidyiah district.
Another person was killed in the northern city of Kirkuk when three more bombs
exploded, one of them outside the political office of a prominent Kurdish
leader.
The attacks made Wednesday the deadliest day in Iraq since 68 people were
killed in Iraq on January 5.
The attacks on Shias were the third occasion pilgrims were targeted in a week.
On Sunday at least six people were killed when two mortar bombs struck a
Baghdad square packed with Shia Muslim pilgrims.
On Monday, 26 people were killed and more than 190 wounded when a suicide
bomber detonated an explosive-rigged car outside a Shia religious office in the
capital.
Al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate, Islamic State of Iraq, claimed responsibility for
the attack on the religious office.
Political tensions have been high in Iraq since the last American troops left
in December, with the country's fragile government, split among Sunni-backed,
Shia and ethnic Kurdish blocks, feuding over their power-sharing accord.
Feisal Amin Rasoul Istrabadi, former deputy permanent representative for Iraq
to the UN, told Al Jazeera that it time for the Iraqi government to
re-investigate a political solution to the conflict.
"Clearly there are people who want to disrupt the state of Iraq, and people who
want to disrupt the political process. The larger question to me is: what is
the government doing to bring people into the political process?" Istrabadi
said.
" [...] Are there people who can be brought into the political process as the
Americans tried to do in 2007 and 2008 in an attempt to reduce this violence,
or are we going to continue to allow the violence to escalate without any sort
of attempt at a political understanding in the country?"
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