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Hundreds escape after Iraq prison attacks
Security forces try to recapture al-Qaeda members after deadly overnight assault on Abu Ghraib and Taji prisons.
Last Modified: 22 Jul 2013 13:40
A manhunt is under way for hundreds of inmates, including four high-ranking al-Qaeda members, who escaped two Iraqi prisons following deadly attacks.
Fifty-six people were killed in Sunday's attacks on Taji prison, north of Baghdad, and the Abu Ghraib facility, west of the Iraqi capital.
The dead include 26 members of the security forces and 20 inmates. Ten of the attackers also died.
Most of them were convicted senior members of al-Qaeda and had received death sentences.
Hakim al-Zamili, Senior member of the security and defence committee
Gunmen fired mortar rounds at the prisons.
Four car bombs were also detonated near the entrances to the jails, while three suicide bombers attacked Taji prison, a police colonel said. Several roadside bombs also exploded near the prison in Taji.
Fighting continued throughout the night as the military deployed aircraft and sent in reinforcements around the two facilities.
"The number of escaped inmates has reached 500, most of them were convicted senior members of al-Qaeda and had received death sentences," Hakim al-Zamili, a senior member of the security and defence committee in parliament, told Reuters.
Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf, reporting from Baghdad, said that this was the most serious challenge from al-Qaeda the government has faced in years.
"This is a group they thought they had dismantled," our correspondent said.
"There has been surprisingly little public reaction from the government, one would think they would try to reassure their citizens."
'Pursuing terrorists'
The situation was eventually brought under control on Monday morning, according to the colonel.
"The security forces in the Baghdad Operations Command, with the assistance of military aircraft, managed to foil an armed attack launched by unknown gunmen against the... two prisons of Taji and Abu Ghraib," the interior ministry said in a statement late on Sunday night.
"The security forces forced the attackers to flee, and these forces are still pursuing the terrorist forces and exerting full control over the two regions," it said.
The attacks on the prisons came a year after al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate announced it would target the justice system.
"The first priority in this is releasing Muslim prisoners everywhere, and chasing and eliminating judges and investigators and their guards," said an audio message attributed to the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in July last year.
Prisons in Iraq are periodically hit by escape attempts, uprisings and other unrest.
Abu Ghraib became notorious after photographs showing Iraqi detainees being humiliated and abused by their US guards were published in 2004. It also served as a torture centre under Saddam Hussein's ousted regime.
Deadly violence also hit security forces in northern Iraq on Monday. A suicide car bomber attacked an army patrol in the city of Mosul, killing 12 people and wounding 16, while a roadside bomb wounded a soldier and a civilian near the city.
So are we absolutely sure Jacques Mesrine is dead? :unsure:
Is the pursuit done Benny Hill style?
Quote from: The Brain on July 22, 2013, 02:18:47 PM
Is the pursuit done Benny Hill style?
The guys who tried to go into hiding in manama were.
Unfortunately "The Troubles" and "The Times of Trouble" have already been taken; they'd make a good descriptive name for the state of Iraq over the past decade:
QuoteDeaths in mortar attack on Iraqi police post
At least nine policemen killed in attack on federal police checkpoint in the town of Shurra, south of Mosul.
Last Modified: 24 Jul 2013 13:31
At least nine policemen were killed and two others wounded in an attack with mortars and automatic weapons on a federal police checkpoint in northern Iraq.
The attack in the town of Shurra, south of Mosul, on Wednesday was followed by a roadside bomb explosion as emergency personnel rushed to the scene, wounding another two people, medical sources said.
There were no casualties among the attackers, security officers said.
Mosul, 360km northwest of Baghdad, has been one of Iraq's major flashpoints in the recent wave of violence.
In a separate incident, unknown assailants killed a soldier in Mosul, while armed men killed a man in Baquba, a city north of Baghdad.
Prisoner transport attacked
On a highway in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, fighters in vehicles mounted with machineguns attacked an army checkpoint and a joint army-police convoy in an apparent attempt to free a captured senior al-Qaeda member who was being carried in the convoy.
The attack left four of the fighters dead, while a soldier and an attacker were wounded.
The violence comes a day after an al-Qaeda front group claimed brazen assaults on two prisons in Iraq that killed more than 40 people.
Security forces are hunting the prisoners who escaped during the assaults, to prevent them carrying out further attacks.
With the latest unrest, more than 650 people have been killed so far in July, making it the deadliest month in a year.
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Deadly wave of car bombs strikes Iraq
At least 46 killed and about 176 injured in coordinated bombings targeting mainly Shia areas in Baghdad and Basra.
Last Modified: 29 Jul 2013 15:28
A wave of 13 car bombs has struck mainly Shia areas in and around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 46 people and injuring hundreds more, security and medical officials have said.
A car bomb also targeted a market in the centre of southern city of Basra killing at least three people on Monday, security sources told Al Jazeera.
The deadliest of Monday's attacks occurred near a taxi terminal in the city of Kut, 150km southeast of the capital, police said. At least five people were killed and 38 injured when two car bombs blew up.
Elsewhere, a magnetic "sticky bomb" killed a police captain in Anbar province.
Four more died in a blast in the town of Mahmoudiya, about 30km south of Baghdad.
The rest of the bombings took place across Baghdad, in Sadr city, Habibiya, Hurriya, Bayaa, Ur, Shurta, Kadhimiya, Tobji, Shua'ala and Risala neighbourhoods, Reuters news agency reported.
One of the Baghdad bombings struck near a place where day labourers wait for work in the overwhelmingly Shia area of Sadr City, killing five people and wounding 17, according to AFP.
A relentless campaign of bombings and shootings has killed nearly 4,000 people in Iraq since the start of the year, according to violence monitoring group Iraq Body Count.
The violence has raised fears of a return to full-blown conflict in a country where Kurds, Shia and Sunni Muslims have yet to find a stable way of sharing power.
In July alone, more than 810 people have lost their lives in attacks.
This would make the month of July the most violent since about May 2008.
I was in Taji.
That's were they have the tank junkyard were I took that old "Fuck U CdM" picture.
Its a pretty big place. You fire a round on the south wall of Taji and you would never hear it on the north wall.
Sorrounded by civilian habitat.
Too easy to disappear when you are over the wall.
And the river is about 300m from the east wall.
You cross it, and you are in shia territory. So they probably didn't go that way.
Quote from: Siege on July 30, 2013, 04:22:33 PM
I was in Taji.
That's were they have the tank junkyard were I took that old "Fuck U CdM" picture.
Its a pretty big place. You fire a round on the south wall of Taji and you would never hear it on the north wall.
Sorrounded by civilian habitat.
Too easy to disappear when you are over the wall.
And the river is about 300m from the east wall.
You cross it, and you are in shia territory. So they probably didn't go that way.
Interesting. :cool:
Of course during you time in theatre, Seigy, they'd have been trying to break into the jail to keep out of your way. :P
Quote from: mongers on July 30, 2013, 04:34:49 PM
Of course during you time in theatre, Seigy, they'd have been trying to break into the jail to keep out of your way. :P
:x
QuoteDeaths in bombings and shootings across Iraq
At least 19 people died in a wave of violent incidents, including an assault on a top military commander's convoy.
Bombings and shootings across Iraq have killed at least 19 people, including an ambush that targeted a convoy carrying a top military commander, authorities said.
Saturday's attack was targeting the motorcade of General Abdul-Amir al-Zaidi, a top military commander, in an area north of Baghdad.
Gunmen killed six of al-Zaidi's bodyguards and wounded four others, police said. The attack took place near the town of Adeim, about 100km north of Baghdad.
Al-Zaidi, who commands some government forces in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, was not hurt in the attack, police said.
Gunmen also broke into the house of a former fighter of an anti-al-Qaeda group known as Sahwa, killing the man's wife and two daughters near the city of Baqouba. The father was not in the house at the time of the attack.
Sahwa joined with US troops in the war against al-Qaeda at the height of Iraq war. Ever since, it has been a target for Sunni fighters who consider them traitors. There were several attacks in July targeting current and former Sahwa members.
Bloodiest Ramadan
In another attack near Baqouba, 60km northeast of Baghdad, gunmen shot and killed two Sahwa fighters as they were working on their farm.
Meanwhile, police officials said fighters in a car killed two off-duty policemen near the northern city of Mosul.
In the central Iraqi city of Tikrit, a roadside bomb explosion killed a father and his son, authorities said.
In western Baghdad, a bomb went off near a line of car part stores, killing two people and wounding seven others, officials said.
In the southeast of the capital, authorities said a blast missed a police patrol but killed two civilian passers-by.
Violence has been on the rise in Iraq all year, but the number of attacks against civilians and security forces has spiked during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which began early last month.
With Saturday's attacks, at least 597 people have been killed since the start of Ramadan, according to an Associated Press news agency count, making it the bloodiest Ramadan in Iraq since 2007.
The surge in the bloodshed is raising fears of a return to the widespread killing that pushed the country to the brink of civil war after the 2003 US-led invasion.
I hope that this latest wave will end tomorrow with the end of Ramadan; but as Al-Qaeda seems to be on the move I'm not sure that's a reasonable hope.
I earlier read some news report that countries in the ME are being advised to watch out for concerted prison assault/mass escapes organised by AQ/affliates, talk about stable-doors.
Perhaps these countries will start doing what Obama did when he found out that locking these terrorists up wasn't an attractive option and just murder them with flying death robots?
QuoteDozens killed in latest Baghdad bombs
At least 28 dead in series of attacks as sectarian violence threatens to bring country to brink of civil war
A spate of bombings Wednesday in mainly Shia neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital Baghdad killed at least 28 people and wounded 65, security and medical officials said.
The series of blasts struck across Baghdad from around 7:30 a.m. local time, according to the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The bombings lasted for about an hour, targeting crowded markets.
Police officials said the deadliest attack was in the central Sadria neighborhood, where a parked car bomb went off at an outdoor market, killing five shoppers and wounding 15.
Other attacks took place in Shaab, Tobchi, Karrada, Azamiyah and Amil neighborhoods.
Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting from Baghdad, said the death toll could have been higher as the attacks happened on a day that has been declared a holiday by the government due to heavy rains.
There was no immediate reaction from the Iraqi government.
Iraq is experiencing a surge in violence since April, following a deadly security raid on a Sunni protest camp in the country's north. Since then, more than 5,500 people have been killed, according to the United Nations.
I was surprised at the death toll since April. Even Al-Jazeera hasn't been reporting the violence since the end of Ramadan.
It's ok. At least we know for a fact they have no WMDs that can be hijacked.
I hate when Prisons attack.
QuoteIraq police storm mall, end deadly siege
Iraqi police stormed a mall in a northern city that Al-Qaeda gunmen used to launch an attack on a nearby police station, killing three militants and ending an hourslong standoff as attacks elsewhere left seven dead Thursday, authorities said.
Armed fighters held off police from their rooftop position on six-story Jawahir mall in Kirkuk, 150 miles north of Baghdad, overnight, throwing down grenades and firing on officers and civilians who tried to flee the fighting. Officers raided the mall Thursday morning before dawn, killing the militants, said Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, Kirkuk's police commander.
No security forces or civilians were wounded in that fighting, Qadir said, though it left large portions of the mall burned. Eleven storekeepers hid inside the mall during the attack, scared to leave, he said.
The fighting in Kirkuk began Wednesday, when authorities said a car bomb exploded at the gates of the Police Intelligence Department. A suicide bomber on foot entered the station and detonated his explosives after that, officials said. The gunmen on the mall's roof then opened fire down on the station, they said.
The police station attack killed five officers and two civilians, while wounding some 70 people, Qadir said. However, those figures have yet to be confirmed.
"This is a very bold attack," said an Al Jazeera source who could not be named for security reasons. "Some local sources are saying that 25 people have died, but others say it is much higher."
In a statement posted on an extremist website Thursday, the Iraqi branch of Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Kirkuk attacks, saying six suicide bombers took part in the assault on the police station and the mall.
"A suicide bomber exploded his car bomb at the gate of the headquarters, paving the way for his brothers. Then, three attackers stormed the headquarters and started to reap the heads of the tyrants by using assault rifles and hand grenades ... then they set off their explosive belts," the group said.
It said the gunmen in the mall used explosives to kill themselves as police launched their raid.
The authenticity of the statement could not be verified, though it was posted on a website commonly used by armed groups and its style was consistent with earlier Al-Qaeda statements.
Meanwhile Thursday, police said gunmen wearing military uniforms stormed the house of a police major in Arej village just south of Mosul, about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. The gunmen killed the police major and his two sons, officials said.
In western Baghdad, a bomb blast on a commercial street killed two people and wounded six, police said. An explosion near shops in the town of Madian, just south of Baghdad, also killed two people and wounded six, officials said.
The coordinated attack on the police station and shopping mall is the latest in a surge of violence across Iraq, which has claimed more than 6,200 lives this year.
In the bible a frequently used metaphor is the sword "Devours" as though it were a ravenous monster. It's interesting how Al-Qaeda uses the metaphor "Reap" for assault rifles, as though it were a tool for harvest and the heads of tyrants were made of delicious corn.
Quote from: Savonarola on December 05, 2013, 02:45:40 PM
In the bible a frequently used metaphor is the sword "Devours" as though it were a ravenous monster. It's interesting how Al-Qaeda uses the metaphor "Reap" for assault rifles, as though it were a tool for harvest and the heads of tyrants were made of delicious corn.
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Sorry, this is all I got.
I shall never google Tyrant ever again.
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Quote from: Savonarola on July 22, 2013, 02:11:57 PM
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Hundreds escape after Iraq prison attacks
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So are we absolutely sure Jacques Mesrine is dead? :unsure:
Trying to out-French Valmy or what?
As for Mesrine he's indeed alive in songs or movies
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Instinct de moustache euh mort
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A more graphic pic, not necessarily SFW
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Quote from: Siege on December 06, 2013, 12:19:46 AM
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Sorry, this is all I got.
That's okay, sometimes all you get is
NOM NOM NOM.
The Great Escape:
QuoteGuard killed in Baghdad prison break
Twenty-two Iraqi suspects facing terrorism charges escaped Friday from a prison in northern Baghdad after killing a security guard, but most were rearrested later in the day, officials said.
The jailbreak from al-Adela prison triggered a police manhunt backed by helicopters that ended with one of the escaped prisoners dead and 13 rearrested. Eight remain at large.
The prisoners had lured a guard into their cell while his comrades were sleeping, claiming an inmate there was critically ill. They then stabbed him to death, two senior security officials said.
Several guards were later detained and questioned over suspicions they had aided the escape, a prison official said.
Jailbreaks are frequent in Iraq and, as with other security breaches, they have cast doubts on the ability of the authorities to secure the country, mired in sectarian tensions.
Also Friday, a car bomb went off near a security checkpoint in the western city of Ramadi, killing five policemen and wounding seven others, said police officials.
In a drive-by shooting in western Baghdad, gunmen shot and killed two government employees in their car. And police said a bomb exploded near an outdoor market in Madain area, just south of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding four.
In the afternoon, a car bomb exploded inside a fish market in Baghdad's southeastern Shiite-majority suburb of Nahrwan, killing four and wounding 14, police said.
Medics in nearby hospitals confirmed the casualty figures for all the attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.
In July hundreds of prisoners broke out of the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison. The Islamic State of Iraq, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, claimed responsibility for the mass escape, which involved two coordinated assaults with suicide bombers and mortars.
Can I be: Iraqi Cooler King? :cool:
Rearrested? Double jeopardy ftw. <_<
QuoteScores dead as violence sweeps Iraq
At least 92 people have been killed and over 161 wounded in a string of deadly attacks across Iraq Monday, security sources told Al Jazeera.
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombings, but rebel groups frequently target civilians and members of the Iraqi security forces to undermine confidence in the country's Shia-led government and agitate sectarian tensions.
The attacks started in the town of Beiji, about 110 miles north of Baghdad, where a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the main gate of the town police station. Three other bombers then ran into the station and blew themselves up, killing eight officers and wounding five others, an official said.
"We believe the attack was aimed at freeing detainees who are being held in the building next door," said Major Salih al-Qaisi, a police officer at the scene, adding that all of the bombers were killed before reaching the building where the detainees are held.
Reuters news agency, citing police and and medical sources, reported later on Monday that two parked cars laden with explosives and a roadside bomb went off near a funeral tent and killed at least 24 Shia Muslim pilgrims in Yusfiya, about 12 miles south of Baghdad.
A spate of car bombs and roadside bombs in mainly Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad also killed at least 27 people and wounded scores, police and medical sources said.
Another attack occurred in Baghdad's southeastern neighborhood of Bayaa when a car bomb went off in a parking lot, killing six civilians and wounding 12 others.
And three suicide bombers seized the local council building in Tikrit, 95 miles north of the capital, after setting off two car bombs outside, security sources said. At least three people were killed.
Wave of violence
Monday's bombings are part of a wave of violence that has swept over Iraq since a security crackdown on a protest camp in a northern Sunni town in April.
In addition to Monday's bombings, militants in Mosul — 240 miles north of Baghdad — intercepted a bus carrying Shia pilgrims to the shrine city of Karbala from the northern Shia town of Tal Afar, and shot 12 of them dead, police said.
Security services have been on high alert since last week because they expect more attacks on Shias before Iraq's majority community marks the ritual of Arbaeen, commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad. Shias are considered apostates by Sunni militants, whose resurgence is blamed by the government partly on the impact of the increasingly sectarian war in neighboring Syria.
At least 262 people have died in attacks across the country this month, according to The Associated Press, making 2013 the most violent year in Iraq since the country was pushed to the brink of civil war in 2006 to 2007.
Lights out! Jihadist Television! Turn that shit up!
QuoteIraqi gunmen kill two journalists in TV station takeover
December 23, 2013 10:00AM ET
Security forces have launched an assault to retake station and free 15 employees
Four suicide bombers attacked a local television station headquarters north of Baghdad on Monday, killing two journalists, a police source told Al Jazeera.
Security forces launched an assault to clear the Salaheddin television building, killing four armed attackers following an exchange of fire and freeing 15 employees of the television channel who had been trapped inside, Al Jazeera's Imran Khan reported from Erbil.
A female presenter and a program director for the station were the two victims, police said.
It was not immediately clear whether any of the gunmen were remaining inside the building.
With the latest violence, nine Iraqi journalists have been killed in attacks in less than three months.
Iraq has come in for repeated criticism over a lack of media freedom and the number of unsolved killings of journalists.
An Al-Qaeda Christmas gift to you:
QuoteChristians targeted by Baghdad bombs
A car bomb near a church in Baghdad has killed at least 15 people and wounded 28 others, as Iraqi Christians celebrated Christmas, officials say.
The device went off outside a Catholic church when worshippers were leaving a Christmas Day service.
Another bomb at a nearby market in a mainly Christian area killed six more people and left 14 people hurt.
Iraq's ancient Christian community has more than halved in recent years, from an estimated population of 900,000.
Both blasts happened in the Dora area of Baghdad. The bomb outside St John's Catholic church exploded in a parked car, shortly after an explosion at an outdoor market in the mainly Christian al-Athorien district.
No-one has yet admitted carrying out the attacks, which came as Christmas Day services were held across Iraq.
During a service at St Joseph Chaldean church in the Karrada area of the capital, Father Saad Seroub called for peace and security for all Iraqis.
'Feeding terrorism'
Churches have been targeted across the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
An attack by gunmen in 2010 on the Catholic Cathedral in Baghdad left more than 50 people dead.
A surge in sectarian violence this year has claimed the lives of more than 7,000 civilians in Iraq, the highest annual number of fatalities since 2008.
Most of the attacks have targeted Shia civilians and the smaller Sunni population.
The bloodshed escalated in April, after the army raided a Sunni anti-government protest camp.
But the conflict in Syria has prompted a spike in attacks, many involving al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the BBC on Sunday that the Syrian crisis was "feeding terrorism in the region".
:(
Wonder how this will effect the war in Syria? :hmm:
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/03/22166297-al-qaeda-linked-forces-capture-town-of-fallujah-in-iraq?lite
QuoteAl Qaeda-linked forces capture town of Fallujah in Iraq
By Andrea Mitchell and Courtney Kube, NBC News
U.S. intelligence officials said Friday the situation in western Iraq was "extremely dire" after radical Sunni forces linked with al Qaeda raised their flag in the town of Fallujah - site of two of the bloodiest battles during the Iraq war - and gained control of the city.
Islamist insurgents have also battled tribesmen for control of the Iraqi city of Ramadi.
The fighters brandished their weapons and set police vehicles ablaze on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. A provincial spokesman said the militants had taken over police stations and military posts in Fallujah and Ramadi after security forces left.
An interior ministry official told Agence France-Presse that ISIL, the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, remained in control of parts of the two cities on Thursday.
The move is another sign that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has not been able to maintain control of the country since the United States withdrew its troops in 2011, failing to reach an agreement with the Maliki government to leave behind a residual force.
There are currently no U.S. troops in Fallujah or Ramadi, according to the Pentagon.
The State Department said the violence that reached another peak Friday was a spillover from the civil war in neighboring Syria -- and that the border between Syria and Iraq has now become meaningless.
The United States rejected suggestions that American troops could help stabilize the situation.
"If we couldn't control that border with 150,000 troops in that country during the war, what would a few hundred accomplish?" one U.S. official said.
The U.S., however, did last month authorize the sale to the Maliki government of Hellfire missiles and Scan Eagle surveillance drones.
The United States continues to have a large diplomatic presence in the country, along with about 100 Marines and 100 high-level institutional trainers -- nearly all in Baghdad. There is also a smaller U.S. Consulate in Erbil.
During the two battles of Fallujah in 2004, the U.S. lost 51 and 95 troops, respectively. More than 1,000 U.S. troops were injured in total.
Ladies and gentlemen, what happens when you have two violent failed states with a joint border.
Quote from: DontSayBanana on January 04, 2014, 09:36:57 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, what happens when you have two violent failed states with a joint border.
3rd Gulf War?
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Quote from: Siege on January 05, 2014, 08:56:16 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on January 04, 2014, 09:36:57 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, what happens when you have two violent failed states with a joint border.
3rd Gulf War?
1st Eurphrates Riverine War
Apparently Iran is volunteering to retake fallujah for the Iraqi government.
QuoteDeadly fighting breaks out in Iraq's Mosul
Local journalists say 20 people killed as an army base and military posts are attacked by armed men.
Gun battles and car bombs targeting the military in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have killed 20 people and injured over 60, according to local journalists.
Clashes were reported in 12 districts of the city as an army base and military posts were attacked.
The violence comes a day after fighters launched an offensive on Samarra, also in the country's north, killing seven members of the security forces and taking control of some areas of the city, officials said.
The assault on Samarra, a Sunni-dominated city 95 kilometres from Baghdad, started with dozens of gunmen driving into the city in SUVs and attacking security checkpoints and police stations on Thursday morning.
Reinforcements were sent in and local authorities imposed a curfew.
Helicopter gunships bombed fighters' positions, pushing the attackers back, though they remained in control of some areas of the city by the late afternoon. Security forces said on Friday that they had regained control
Local hospital officials said that apart from the seven policemen and soldiers killed, several attackers also died. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to media.
Samarra was the scene of a major turning point in the Sunni-Shia sectarian struggle in Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion. In 2006, al-Qaeda-linked Sunni fighters bombed the city's revered Shia al-Askari shrine, triggering a wave of sectarian violence that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war.
Minority targeted
in a seperate development, authorities said back-to-back car bomb attacks killed seven people belonging to an ethnic minority in the north.
Police officials said the explosions on Friday morning took place in Tahrawa, a village inhabited by families from the Shabak ethnic group, who have their own distinct language and belief system.
The village is near the city of Mosul, 360 kilometres northwest of Baghdad.
Police say about 37 people were wounded in the blasts.
Hospital officials confirmed the toll from the attack. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to release details to journalists.
According to the United Nations, 8,868 people were killed in Iraq last year - the country's highest death toll since the peak of sectarian bloodletting in 2007.
On the one hand I'm concerned that the cycle of violence in Iraq will continue until a new Saddam like figure arises. On the other I look forward to learning all about the Shabak people from Spellus.
Quote from: Savonarola on June 06, 2014, 08:35:24 AM
On the other I look forward to learning all about the Shabak people from Spellus.
:lol:
Is there any particular reason that nobody seems to give a crap about the genocide of Middle Eastern minority groups outside of right wing Islamophobes? It is just weird.
Quote from: Valmy on June 06, 2014, 09:19:00 AM
Is there any particular reason that nobody seems to give a crap about the genocide of Middle Eastern minority groups outside of right wing Islamophobes? It is just weird.
Only Islamophobes care when mooselimbs murder mooselimbs. The killing that Atlantophobes consider evil is the killing done by US and Israel.
Quote from: Valmy on June 06, 2014, 09:19:00 AM
Is there any particular reason that nobody seems to give a crap about the genocide of Middle Eastern minority groups outside of right wing Islamophobes? It is just weird.
post '68 western selfhate.
Quote from: Valmy on June 06, 2014, 09:19:00 AM
Is there any particular reason that nobody seems to give a crap about the genocide of Middle Eastern minority groups outside of right wing Islamophobes? It is just weird.
Right wing Islamaphobes care about the genocide of Middle Eastern minority groups?
Quote from: Jacob on June 06, 2014, 01:17:03 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 06, 2014, 09:19:00 AM
Is there any particular reason that nobody seems to give a crap about the genocide of Middle Eastern minority groups outside of right wing Islamophobes? It is just weird.
Right wing Islamaphobes care about the genocide of Middle Eastern minority groups?
Yeah they are always harping on it. Especially about the non-Muslim ones obviously. I know they are doing it mainly to show how Mooslims are teh evol but still.
Who's a Muslim and who isn't is a thorny issue in that part of the world. Groups like the Druze and the Shabaks claim to be Muslim to keep things like this from happening.
As for Mosul, the Kurdish militias will probably throw ISIS out.
Quote from: Viking on June 06, 2014, 09:24:47 AM
Quote from: Valmy on June 06, 2014, 09:19:00 AM
Is there any particular reason that nobody seems to give a crap about the genocide of Middle Eastern minority groups outside of right wing Islamophobes? It is just weird.
Only Islamophobes care when mooselimbs murder mooselimbs. The killing that Atlantophobes consider evil is the killing done by US and Israel.
I hate Atlanta and pretty much all of Georgia, your description doesn't apply to me.