Home
About 300 killed and wounded toll terrorist attacks that hit Iraq on Tuesday
Posted 21/03/2012 02:12 AM
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The more than 30 explosions in the cities and towns across Iraq on Tuesday, killing 52 and injuring at least about 250, despite a major security crackdown before the Arab Summit to be held in Baghdad next week.
Tuesday was the bloodiest days in Iraq in about a month and showed a wide range of coordinated bombings in more than ten cities that there is a clear determination on the part of militants to prove that the government can not maintain the safety of the country before the summit.
Is due to host Iraq summit meeting for the first time in 20 years and the government is keen to show they can maintain security after the withdrawal of U.S. forces in December.
And Ali al-Dabbagh said the government spokesman, told Reuters that the aim of Tuesday's attacks is to provide a negative image of the security situation in Iraq.
He said he will step up security efforts to counter attacks by terrorist groups, and filling the gaps that they used to breach security, whether in Baghdad or other provinces.
Jamal al-Mahdi, spokesman for the health department in Karbala, said more attacks on Tuesday, a bloody event in the southern city inhabited by the Shiite majority, where two explosions that killed at least 13 people and wounded 48 during morning rush hour.
He said Murtaza Ali Kadhim (23 years), a shop owner told Reuters: "The second is the explosion which caused the largest damage. I saw body parts scattered on the road ...".
A scene from the terrorist bombing in Karbala
And went on to members of the "security forces are stupid because they always congregate at the scene and after the second explosion happened. And they are targeted."
There were also explosions in the capital, and Baiji, Baquba and Daquq, molasses, Dhuluiya, Kirkuk, Mosul, Samarra and Tuz and Khalis and in Dujail, north of Fallujah and Ramadi to the west and in the cities of Hilla and Mahmudiya, Latifiya and Musayyib to the south. Overturned and the police force of bombs in Baquba, Fallujah and Mosul.
The bombings targeted the most checkpoints and patrols of the police.
Said John Drake Senior Consultant in risk group A.. K. Any. Which is the studies on security in Iraq for companies dealing with it, "the latest wave of attacks were probably coordinated by a large group of well-organized. It is likely that it was an attempt to show the authorities that the security measures insignificant.
The attacks are often aimed at military and police forces in Iraq, where it still lies bombings and shootings almost daily.
He says al Qaeda wing in Iraq and allied insurgent Sunni groups that, despite the withdrawal of U.S. troops will not lay down their arms and will continue to fight the Shi'ite-led government.
And claimed that those groups responsible for almost all major attacks since the beginning of the year and launch coordinated attacks across the country almost every month since the withdrawal of the Americans.
Despite the decline in violence in general in Iraq since the height of the country's sectarian fighting in 2006 and 2007, many Iraqis fear their government does not have the necessary means to maintain security after nine years on the invasion of Iraq and the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
The attacks on Tuesday, was the largest since February 23 when I signed dozens of explosions across the country, killing at least 60 people.
He described a White House spokesman called the attacks "acts require condemnation."
"Despite these efforts of extremists is still violence in Iraq at low levels as historic."
"The Iraqi forces have shown their ability to deal with security challenges in this country after the other once in the past few years .. and we are confident in their ability."
The Arab League summit to be held between 27 and 29 March, the current will be the first to be held in Baghdad since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990. And considers the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's most important diplomatic event in Iraq so far in the post-Saddam.
And approved on Monday the ninth anniversary of the start of US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein.
And tightened security across Baghdad ahead of the summit. Since Monday caused extensive checks at checkpoints in the traffic stop almost in the city of seven million people.
The sources said police and medical sources said that in the northern city of Kirkuk, two car bombs exploded near a police headquarters, killing nine people and wounding 42. In Baghdad, two explosions killed nine people and wounded 28.
Police in the northern city of Baquba, they found nine bombs and defused, including one in a car bomb was parked in the road and the headless corpse in the driver's seat and the man's head placed in his lap.
The other five bombs exploded in the town, the capital of Diyala province north of Baghdad, which has also seen a series of smaller explosions, bloody Monday night.
By evening, Reuters counted 32 separate explosion on Tuesday. The total number of casualties as a result of all bombings, police and hospital sources, at least 52 dead and 249 wounded.
The government says it will deploy up to 100 thousand extra troops and police in Baghdad to impose additional security measures during the summit and the capital's airport will be closed. Are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on preparations, which include hotels and renewal of planting trees and paving roads.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Posted 21/03/2012 02:12 AM
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The more than 30 explosions in the cities and towns across Iraq on Tuesday, killing 52 and injuring at least about 250, despite a major security crackdown before the Arab Summit to be held in Baghdad next week.
Tuesday was the bloodiest days in Iraq in about a month and showed a wide range of coordinated bombings in more than ten cities that there is a clear determination on the part of militants to prove that the government can not maintain the safety of the country before the summit.
Is due to host Iraq summit meeting for the first time in 20 years and the government is keen to show they can maintain security after the withdrawal of U.S. forces in December.
And Ali al-Dabbagh said the government spokesman, told Reuters that the aim of Tuesday's attacks is to provide a negative image of the security situation in Iraq.
He said he will step up security efforts to counter attacks by terrorist groups, and filling the gaps that they used to breach security, whether in Baghdad or other provinces.
Jamal al-Mahdi, spokesman for the health department in Karbala, said more attacks on Tuesday, a bloody event in the southern city inhabited by the Shiite majority, where two explosions that killed at least 13 people and wounded 48 during morning rush hour.
He said Murtaza Ali Kadhim (23 years), a shop owner told Reuters: "The second is the explosion which caused the largest damage. I saw body parts scattered on the road ...".
A scene from the terrorist bombing in Karbala
And went on to members of the "security forces are stupid because they always congregate at the scene and after the second explosion happened. And they are targeted."
There were also explosions in the capital, and Baiji, Baquba and Daquq, molasses, Dhuluiya, Kirkuk, Mosul, Samarra and Tuz and Khalis and in Dujail, north of Fallujah and Ramadi to the west and in the cities of Hilla and Mahmudiya, Latifiya and Musayyib to the south. Overturned and the police force of bombs in Baquba, Fallujah and Mosul.
The bombings targeted the most checkpoints and patrols of the police.
Said John Drake Senior Consultant in risk group A.. K. Any. Which is the studies on security in Iraq for companies dealing with it, "the latest wave of attacks were probably coordinated by a large group of well-organized. It is likely that it was an attempt to show the authorities that the security measures insignificant.
The attacks are often aimed at military and police forces in Iraq, where it still lies bombings and shootings almost daily.
He says al Qaeda wing in Iraq and allied insurgent Sunni groups that, despite the withdrawal of U.S. troops will not lay down their arms and will continue to fight the Shi'ite-led government.
And claimed that those groups responsible for almost all major attacks since the beginning of the year and launch coordinated attacks across the country almost every month since the withdrawal of the Americans.
Despite the decline in violence in general in Iraq since the height of the country's sectarian fighting in 2006 and 2007, many Iraqis fear their government does not have the necessary means to maintain security after nine years on the invasion of Iraq and the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
The attacks on Tuesday, was the largest since February 23 when I signed dozens of explosions across the country, killing at least 60 people.
He described a White House spokesman called the attacks "acts require condemnation."
"Despite these efforts of extremists is still violence in Iraq at low levels as historic."
"The Iraqi forces have shown their ability to deal with security challenges in this country after the other once in the past few years .. and we are confident in their ability."
The Arab League summit to be held between 27 and 29 March, the current will be the first to be held in Baghdad since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990. And considers the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's most important diplomatic event in Iraq so far in the post-Saddam.
And approved on Monday the ninth anniversary of the start of US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein.
And tightened security across Baghdad ahead of the summit. Since Monday caused extensive checks at checkpoints in the traffic stop almost in the city of seven million people.
The sources said police and medical sources said that in the northern city of Kirkuk, two car bombs exploded near a police headquarters, killing nine people and wounding 42. In Baghdad, two explosions killed nine people and wounded 28.
Police in the northern city of Baquba, they found nine bombs and defused, including one in a car bomb was parked in the road and the headless corpse in the driver's seat and the man's head placed in his lap.
The other five bombs exploded in the town, the capital of Diyala province north of Baghdad, which has also seen a series of smaller explosions, bloody Monday night.
By evening, Reuters counted 32 separate explosion on Tuesday. The total number of casualties as a result of all bombings, police and hospital sources, at least 52 dead and 249 wounded.
The government says it will deploy up to 100 thousand extra troops and police in Baghdad to impose additional security measures during the summit and the capital's airport will be closed. Are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on preparations, which include hotels and renewal of planting trees and paving roads.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
