Baghdad bombings kill 83 people (death toll now 281)

[muriel_volestrangler]

Last edited Thu Jul 7, 2016, 12:20 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: The Guardian

At least 83 people have been killed and 176 wounded in two separate bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraqi officials have said.

In the deadliest attack, a car bomb hit Karada, a busy shopping district in the centre of the Iraqi capital, killing 78 people and wounding 160, according to police and hospital officials. It struck as families and young people were out on the streets after breaking their daylight fast for the holy month of Ramadan on Sunday morning.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement posted online, saying it had deliberately targeted Shia Muslims. The statement could not be independently verified.

Firefighters were still working to extinguish the blazes and bodies were still being recovered from charred buildings at dawn on Sunday. Many of the dead were children, according to reporters at the scene. Ambulances could be heard rushing to the site for hours after the blast. A witness said the explosion caused fires at nearby clothing and cellphone shops.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/03/baghdad-bombings-dozens-killed

[agnostic102]

1. sigh...

this century is going to bring about a new kind of religious war and i dont think the west is prepared for it =(

[romanic]

2. It just never ends.

[nitpicker]

3. Link to BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36696568

[JI7]

4. these people are fucked up

[840high]

18. .that^

[Surya Gayatri]

5. .../...

Nothing else to say at this point. Istanbul, Dakar, Baghdad all within a week.

And, illegal waterboarding is supposed to halt this?

[LeftishBrit]

6. Unspeakable.

[Botany]

7. The # of suicide car bomber in Iraq prior to bush and Cheney's war

Zero.

[The2ndWheel]

8. The # of people blaming America/the West for propping up strongman dictators around the world

A lot.

[zazen]

9. so if this has been London there'd be wall-to-wall coverage, but IS kills fellow Muslims...crickets

Heartbreaking for those poor people.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. 'Crickets'? It's the top story on the NBC website, CNN (US edition and International)

2nd story on the BBC ... what kind of 'crickets' are you thinking of?

[Just reading posts]

13. Fair point, but if this had happened in London, I would posit that there would be wall to wall

coverage for the next few days. That certainly isn't the case with this story.

And I would point out that there are only a handful of threads (at most) discussing it here. Again, if it had been London or any other major Western city, every other thread would have been discussing it.

[zazen]

14. frankly, social media, and here, and the TV here in NC--when it was Paris it was all-consuming

Suddenly everyone had French flags all over their social media and discussion of other topics came to a stand still (like with 9/11, although we didn't have that level of social media then).

When it's in a middle eastern country, yes there's coverage-and I tend to go to British media anyway for my global coverage--, but, perhaps understandably because the majority of us in the US don't originate from the Middle East and Central Asia, there's less identification with the sufferers. I don't think that's necessarily hateful or bigoted--I think it's more human nature to not identify as much when we don't feel we have as much in common with them as elsewhere.

But with the Paris attacks, for example, I do get a little irritated when suddenly people who otherwise don't seem to register that we burned babies to death with phosphorus in Fallujah and that ISIS tortures, rapes and murders fellow Muslims all the friggin time, think they're part of some international crisis where they've been personally victimized.

So, I was responding to that--that, unlike with Boston or Paris or California, suddenly my social media world isn't full of 300 white people with whom I grew up claiming some instant affinity with these poor victims of the ongoing bullshit over there, which was _aggravated_ by Bushco's involvement. Saddam was a bastard to be sure but we didn't have ISIS getting such a foothold.

[6chars]

11. bummer, man

[riversedge]

12. #Baghdad before and after #ISIS attack...........PIC; death toll up to 91

somaye morovati ?@SomayeMorovati 1h1 hour ago

#Baghdad before and after #ISIS attack


:large



http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/07/03/breaking-at-least-91-people-killed-in-massive-bombing-isis-claims-responsibility-video/

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. I fear something is going to happen here in the US tomorrow

4th of July and last day of a bloody Ramadan.

[Just reading posts]

16. Now at least 125 dead, close to 200 wounded.

[riversedge]

26. sad, so sad.

[B2G]

17. But ISIS is losing. nt

[840high]

19. JV team.

[Beacool]

20. It's never ending.

There seems to be at least one of these kinds of attacks every week. So much hatred and evil in the hearts of these people. It's depressing. May the latest victims rest in peace.

[oberliner]

21. Baghdad attacks kill 126, including 25 children; ISIS claims responsibility

For the third time in a week terrorists carried out a mass slaughter of civilians - with ISIS claiming responsibility.

A suicide car bomb killed 125 people, including 25 children, Saturday evening in a busy shopping district in Baghdad.
It was the deadliest attack in Iraq in many years.

Families had gathered in the popular area to break the Ramadan fast and watch the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in a cafe when a suicide car bomb exploded, ripping through a multi-level building that also housed stores and a gym.

At least 147 were injured.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/02/middleeast/baghdad-car-bombs/

[blitzen]

22. So 15 years after Cheney started his Iraq war the Media finally notices...

that hundreds of people are bombed to death in Iraq nearly every day.

CNN website has a huge headline, "Carnage in Baghdad," as if this is something new. So now they can spin their narrative about ISIS/terrorism "spiraling out of control." Shame on them for ignoring the past 15 years of Cheney-triggered Baghdad carnage!

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. Actually, it is unusual for Iraq; that's why they've declared 3 days of national mourning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36699562

[blitzen]

25. Well here's the data

https://www.iraqbodycount.org/

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. Exactly. It's by far the worst in the last several weeks.

When was the last time a day was as bad as this?

[blitzen]

28. here's a sample

Thursday 16 June: 64 killed

Shirqat: 26 executed.
Fallujah: 9 children executed; 10 by coalition air strikes.
Baghdad: 4 by IEDs.
Madain: 3 by IED.
Haditha: 2 children by a rocket.
Taji: 2 by IED.
Yusufiya: 2 policemen by IED.
Mahmudiya: 2 by IED
Zubair: 1 body.
Baquba: 1 teacher by gunfire.
Mosul: 2 by knife wounds.
Wednesday 15 June: 46 killed

Mosul: 18 executed; 1 by coalition air strikes.
Baghdad: 10 by IEDs, gunfire; 2 bodies.
Yusufiya: 2 bodies.
Fallujah: 10 by coalition air strikes; 1 war photographer by mortars.
Dibs: 1 child by IED.
Riyadh: 1 executed.

Tuesday 14 June: 42 killed

Qayyarah: 26 executed.
Baghdad: 7 by IEDs.
Mosul: 4 executed.
Rashidiya: 3 by IED.
Khalis: 1 body.
Yusufiya: 1 by IED.
Monday 13 June : 28 killed

Qayyarah: 18 executed.
Baghdad: 4 by IEDs; 3 bodies.
Shirqat: 2 by air strikes.
Video: 1 executed.

Sunday 12 June: 97 killed.

Saqlawiyah: 49 executed after surrendering to Shia militia.
Fallujah: 19 executed; 18 gunned down while fleeing.
Baghdad: 7 by IEDs.
Madain: 2 by IED.
2 executed in unknown location (video).

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. Yes; I read those, and all those for several weeks before. Today was 179 - far worse.

You said hundreds were killed by bomb nearly every day. You've posted days in which the total by all methods wasn't above 100. A sample isn't what is needed; it's the days you say hundreds were killed. When were they?

[blitzen]

30. graph...compare 2016 t0 2014 etc

https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/

the point is that the media has been totally silent about iraq violence but now wants to use it as part of a simplistic ISIS narrative

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. Yes, worst since 2014; and it was reported then, and it was ISIS then

See eg

Islamic State militants have targeted the Iraqi capital Baghdad with a wave of devastating car bombs and mortar attacks, killing at least 150 people since Sunday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014920391

You seem to be saying that since things were worse a couple of years ago, they shouldn't report it now. Odd. Very odd.

[tblue37]

32. I posted this image below (Post #31). It shows car bombs in Baghdad since 2003:

https://twitter.com/rezahakbari/status/745351170235957248/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[forest444]

33. This must be what Rummy meant by "being greeted with roses"

But they're better off without Saddam, don't cha know!

[bdwker]

23. Add on more

New York
Russia
Mogadishoo
Egypt
Paris
Brussels
San Bernardino
Orlando
Turkey
Bangladesh
Iraq

[tblue37]

31. Link to image that shows where all the car bombs have gone off in Baghdad since

CheneyBush's 2003 illegal invasion of a country just to steal its oil and facilitate war prifiteering, even though they knew Iraq was in no way related to 9/11:



https://twitter.com/rezahakbari/status/745351170235957248/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[muriel_volestrangler]

35. Baghdad bombing death toll rises to 281

Iraqi officials have again raised the figure for the number of people killed in Sunday's suicide bombing in Baghdad.

The health ministry said 281 were now known to have died in the attack, which targeted a shopping complex in the mainly Shia Muslim Karrada district.

The previous death toll, announced by the ministry on Tuesday, was 250.
...
More than 200 people were wounded in the attack, 23 of whom are still in hospital.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36732824