' IS SUICIDE ATTACK KILLS 29 AT FOOTBALL MATCH '
Sat Mar 26, 2016 3:26 pm
IS SUICIDE ATTACK IN IRAQ KILLS 29 AT FOOTBALL MATCH '
Simply beyond belief. Cowards.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35901358
Iraq violence: 'IS suicide attack' kills 29 in football match
25 March 2016
At least 29 people have been killed in a suicide attack in a crowded park in the Iraqi city of Iskandariya, officials have said.
The bomber detonated the explosives at the end of a football match, wounding more than 60 others, according to police and medical sources.
Iskandariya is a mainly Shia town 40km (25 miles) south of the capital, Baghdad.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it carried out the attack.
IS, a mainly Sunni group which controls large swathes of northern and western Iraq, has attacked numerous Shia targets in the country recently.
A local police captain said the suicide bomber blew himself up in the crowd as the trophy was being handed to the winners, AFP news agency reported.
The town's mayor was among those killed, the agency added, quoting an unnamed medical source.
Iskandariya is in a region that was once called "the triangle of death" and was badly affected by sectarian violence that followed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
Meanwhile, the powerful Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to implement government reforms within 24 hours.
Mr Sadr warned authorities they would face street protests if a new-cabinet and fresh measures to fight corruption were not introduced by Saturday.
Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protest outside the heavily guarded Green Zone in BaghdadImage copyrightAP
Image caption
Thousands of supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr have protested outside Baghdad's Green Zone
The ultimatum was made in a statement read to thousands of his supporters staging a sit-in outside the gates of the heavily fortified Green Zone, an area of government offices and embassies in Baghdad.
Plans for a cabinet re-shuffle were announced last month, but Mr Abadi has been slow to implement the changes.
Simply beyond belief. Cowards.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35901358
Iraq violence: 'IS suicide attack' kills 29 in football match
25 March 2016
At least 29 people have been killed in a suicide attack in a crowded park in the Iraqi city of Iskandariya, officials have said.
The bomber detonated the explosives at the end of a football match, wounding more than 60 others, according to police and medical sources.
Iskandariya is a mainly Shia town 40km (25 miles) south of the capital, Baghdad.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it carried out the attack.
IS, a mainly Sunni group which controls large swathes of northern and western Iraq, has attacked numerous Shia targets in the country recently.
A local police captain said the suicide bomber blew himself up in the crowd as the trophy was being handed to the winners, AFP news agency reported.
The town's mayor was among those killed, the agency added, quoting an unnamed medical source.
Iskandariya is in a region that was once called "the triangle of death" and was badly affected by sectarian violence that followed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
Meanwhile, the powerful Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to implement government reforms within 24 hours.
Mr Sadr warned authorities they would face street protests if a new-cabinet and fresh measures to fight corruption were not introduced by Saturday.
Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protest outside the heavily guarded Green Zone in BaghdadImage copyrightAP
Image caption
Thousands of supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr have protested outside Baghdad's Green Zone
The ultimatum was made in a statement read to thousands of his supporters staging a sit-in outside the gates of the heavily fortified Green Zone, an area of government offices and embassies in Baghdad.
Plans for a cabinet re-shuffle were announced last month, but Mr Abadi has been slow to implement the changes.
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Re: ' IS SUICIDE ATTACK KILLS 29 AT FOOTBALL MATCH '
Sat Mar 26, 2016 8:54 pm
wiping themselves out now too - just shows how mindless they are
Re: ' IS SUICIDE ATTACK KILLS 29 AT FOOTBALL MATCH '
Sat Mar 26, 2016 10:14 pm
RYANBLUE wrote:wiping themselves out now too - just shows how mindless they are
Not "now"... theyve been killing their own kind for years
Re: ' IS SUICIDE ATTACK KILLS 29 AT FOOTBALL MATCH '
Sun Mar 27, 2016 8:34 am
paulh_85 wrote:RYANBLUE wrote:wiping themselves out now too - just shows how mindless they are
Not "now"... theyve been killing their own kind for years
Centuries even.
