Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a bomb attack. — Photo by Reuters
It continues in Iraq...the strategy of al Qaeda in Iraq to bring the country into a full blown sectarian civil war as today a bombing of a housing complex in Mosul killed at least 8 people, most of whom were women and children.
From the report at DAWN:
A car bomb exploded inside a residential complex housing displaced Shia Muslims in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding four, hospital and police sources said.
The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks on Shia pilgrims and other targets since a political crisis erupted a month ago in Iraq’s fragile power-sharing government, split among Shia, Sunni Muslim and Kurdish blocs.
“The hospital received eight bodies including four women, three children and a man and another four wounded,” said Laith Habbaba, manager of the Hamdaniya Hospital in Mosul.
Police confirmed the number of casualties.
On Saturday, a suicide bomber disguised as a policeman killed at least 53 people and wounded scores in an attack on Shia pilgrims at a checkpoint in the southern city of Basra.
Over the weekend, one of the first leaders of Iraq after the U.S. drove Saddam Hussein out of power relayed that President Obama was wrong to say that the U.S. is leaving a stable country and he pointed to this relentless assault by al Qaeda in Iraq.
The fact of the matter is that many of us predicted this - pull U.S. troops out and the bloody massacre would start and what none of the pussies on the Left in America will admit is that we had troops in Iraq the past six months of our engagement there with very, very few casualties to American troops.
Car bomb blast kills at least eight in Iraq’s Mosul
MOSUL: A car bomb exploded inside a residential complex housing displaced Shia Muslims in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding four, hospital and police sources said.
The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks on Shia pilgrims and other targets since a political crisis erupted a month ago in Iraq’s fragile power-sharing government, split among Shia, Sunni Muslim and Kurdish blocs.
“The hospital received eight bodies including four women, three children and a man and another four wounded,” said Laith Habbaba, manager of the Hamdaniya Hospital in Mosul.
Police confirmed the number of casualties.
On Saturday, a suicide bomber disguised as a policeman killed at least 53 people and wounded scores in an attack on Shia pilgrims at a checkpoint in the southern city of Basra.
Political tensions in Iraq have been high since December when Shia Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government ordered the arrest of a Sunni vice president, touching off a crisis that has many fearing a relapse into sectarian conflict.
Mosul, 390 kilometres north of Baghdad, was once an al Qaeda stronghold, and witnessed some of the fiercest fighting during the war that followed the 2003 US-led invasion.
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