The Shia of Iraq continue to pay the price for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq as several new terror bombings have killed more than 20 in both Sadr City and another part of Baghdad.
From the report at The Telegraph:
One bomb was planted on a parked motorcycle and exploded near a group of day labourers looking for work.
A second device exploded on a roadside outside a small tea shop close to the first blast, a police source said.
The attacks occurred in the predominantly Shiite, Sadr City neighbourhood in the northeast of the Iraqi capital.
Police confirmed they found and defused two other bombs in the area.
Later on Thursday morning at least 12 people were killed and 32 others wounded when two car bombs exploded in Kadhimiya district, a mainly Shi'ite area in northwestern Baghdad, Iraqi police said.
All of these bombings that have happened in Iraq since the pullout of our troops show the amazing patience of al Qaeda in Iraq - these guys have been laying low for months and months and now that the main threat of retaliation by U.S. troops isn't there, they are on a spree. And al Qaeda's plan to hit at the biggest nerves of the Shia in the country is showcased in the fact that they have now hit Sadr City....home of course to the Shia leader Mookie al Sadr.
Wave of explosions rock Shiite neighbourhood of Baghdad
One bomb was planted on a parked motorcycle and exploded near a group of day labourers looking for work.
A second device exploded on a roadside outside a small tea shop close to the first blast, a police source said.
The attacks occurred in the predominantly Shiite, Sadr City neighbourhood in the northeast of the Iraqi capital.
Police confirmed they found and defused two other bombs in the area.
Later on Thursday morning at least 12 people were killed and 32 others wounded when two car bombs exploded in Kadhimiya district, a mainly Shi'ite area in northwestern Baghdad, Iraqi police said.
Iraqi leaders have warned of a resurgence of Sunni and Shiite militants and an increase in violence following the US troop withdrawal, which was completed last month.
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