ISIS update 7/03/2016..at least 95 people were killed Sunday in two massive suicide bombings in Baghdad
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“It Was Like An Earthquake” – Over 91 Killed After Two ISIS Suicide Bombings Rip Through Baghdad
Just days after Iraqi forces scored a major victory against the Islamic State which was dislodged from its stronghold of Falluja, an hour’s drive west of Baghdad, ISIS struck back when at least 95 people were killed Sunday in two massive suicide bombings in the Iraqi capital, including a large-scale attack that killed 86 people, among them 15 children, in a central shopping district.
As AP reports, the bombings demonstrated the extremists’ ability to mount significant attacks despite major battlefield losses, including the city of Fallujah, which was declared “fully liberated” from IS just over a week ago. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had ordered the offensive after a series of deadly bombings in Baghdad, saying Falluja served as a launchpad for such attacks on the capital. However, bombings have continued.
The deadliest attack took place in the central Karada district of Baghdad, where a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laded refrigerator pickup truck outside a crowded shopping center, killing at least 95 people and wounding up to 170 others, according to a police officer. He said the dead included 15 children, 10 women and six policemen.
The suicide bomber struck shortly after midnight, when families and young people were out on the streets in the central district of Karrada, after breaking their daylight fast for the holy month of Ramadan. Most of the victims were inside a multi-story shopping and amusement mall, where dozens burned to death or suffocated, officials said. “It was like an earthquake,” said Karim Sami, a 35-year-old street vendor. “I wrapped up my goods and was heading home when I saw a fire ball with a thunderous bombing. I was so scared to go back and started to make phone calls to my friends, but none answered,” the father of three added. He said that one of his friends had been killed, another was wounded and one was still missing.
As expected, within hours, IS claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement posted online, saying they had deliberately targeted Shiite Muslims. At the scene, firefighters and civilians were seen carrying the dead away, their bodies wrapped in blankets and sheets. Smoke billowed from the shopping center, which was surrounded by the twisted and burned wreckage of cars and market stalls. A group of women were sitting on the pavement, crying for their loved ones.
In the second attack, an improvised explosive device went off in Baghdad’s northern Shaab area, killing 5 people and wounding 16, another police officer said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of IS militants who often target commercial districts and Shiite areas. Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. The high death toll made it the second deadliest attack in the capital this year. On May 11, IS militants carried out three car bombings in Baghdad, killing 93 people. Hours after the bombing, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and lawmakers visited the blast site, however they got a less then warm welcome. Clips posted on Twitter, showed an angry crowd, with people calling al-Abadi a “thief” and shouting at his convoy. Eyewitness said the crowd pelted the al-Abadi’s car with rocks, shoes and jerry cans.
Until the government launched its Fallujah operation, the prime minister had faced growing social unrest and anti-government protests sparked, in part, by popular anger at the lack of security in the capital. As reported in late April, Baghdad’s highly-fortified Green Zone — which houses government buildings and diplomatic missions — was stormed twice by anti-government protesters. In Karada civilians expressed their frustration at the government’s failure to secure the capital. “We are in a state of war, and these places are targeted. The security can’t focus on the war (against IS) and forget Baghdad,” Sami, the street vendor, said. The Islamic State still controls Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul as well as significant patches of territory in the country’s north and west. At the height of the extremist group’s power in 2014, IS rendered nearly a third of the country out of government control. Now, the militants are estimated to control only 14 percent of Iraqi territory, according to the office of Iraq’s prime minister.
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Secretary-General of Christian popular forces, the Babylon Battalion, revealed that he is in possession of irrefutable evidence substantiating tight relationship between the Saudi Ambassador to Baghdad Thamer al-Sabhan and the ISIL terrorist group.
Speaking in a live TV program on Sunday, Rayan al-Kaldani said that he is in possession of an audio file of Sabhan’s phone talks with an ISIL terrorist ringleader.
“Is this a diplomatic behavior or a plot against Iraq?” he asked.
Kaldani blamed the Saudi envoy for the recent blasts in Baghdad which killed over 80 people, and said, “From now on, we consider the Saudi ambassador responsible for any blast in Baghdad.”
Two blasts ripped through busy market areas in Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, killing around 80 people and injuring 160.
Earlier this week, at least 12 people were killed and 32 injured in another suicide attack West of Baghdad, where an attacker wearing a suicide vest targeted a Sunni mosque in Abu Ghraib.
The Saudi ambassador has been criticized for his interfering remarks and undiplomatic behavior in recent months.
Last month, a senior Iraqi lawmaker called on his government to take serious measures against the Saudi Ambassador to Baghdad, and said that al-Sabhan is in Iraq to support the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group.
“The reinstatement of al-Sabhan in Baghdad is meant to support the ISIL,” member of the Iraqi Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee Mesal al-Alousi said.
He underlined that Saudi Arabia meddles in the internal affairs of all the regional countries, and said, “For the same reason the Iraqi government should confront that country’s ambassador to Baghdad.”
“Saudi Arabia claims that it respects the Iraqi people and Shiites, but it supports the ISIL,” al-Alousi said.
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The Syrian army has dispatched thousands of fresh forces and long convoys of armored vehicles to a vast region among the provinces of Damascus, Dara’a and Quneitra known as the Death Triangle to end terrorist groups’ rule there, military sources revealed on Sunday.
“Over five thousands of Army men, including experienced commanders and Russian advisors, have been deployed to Deir Maker in Western Damascus,” the sources said, adding, “Hundreds of military vehicles and tanks can be seen in Deir Maker too.”
The Death Triangle, which includes several towns and heights, including Kafr Nasej, al-Teiheh, Mashareh, al-Maal, Tal al-Harrah and Antar, is a strategic region among the province of Damascus, Quneitra and Dara’a.
On Friday, the Syrian Army troops targeted the terrorist groups’ strongholds in Western Ghouta, inflicting major losses on the militants.
The Syrian soldiers stormed positions of Ajnad al-Sham in the town of Darayya after local terrorist commanders refused to lay down arms and turn themselves in to the government forces.
The Syrian fighter jets also pounded the militant positions in Darayya.
The terrorist groups of Ajnad al-Sham and the Darayya Martyrs Brigade have thus far suffered a heavy death toll in the attacks.
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