At least 35 killed in triple suicide attack on Shia mausoleum in Iraq

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At least 35 killed in triple suicide attack on Shia mausoleum in Iraq
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TIKRIT: The militant Islamic State (IS) group claimed a triple suicide attack on Thursday evening near the mausoleum of Sayid Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi north of Baghdad, which killed at least 35 people and wounded 60 others, according to Iraqi security sources.

A man detonated an explosive belt at the external gate of the mausoleum at around 11pm, allowing several gunmen to storm the site and start shooting at worshippers on the occasion of Eidul Fitr, according to the security sources.

At least one gunman blew himself up in the middle of the crowd while another was gunned down by the guard of the mausoleum before he could detonate his explosive belt.

The site also came under rocket fire during the attack that was claimed by IS. The militant group said in a statement the attack was carried out by three suicide bombers wearing explosive belts.

Pictures posted on social media showed a fire burning in the market located at the entrance of the Sayid Mohammed mausoleum. It was not clear if the site itself was damaged.

The attack on the mausoleum comes days after a suicide attack in Baghdad claimed nearly 300 lives.

Prominent Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had ordered his militia, the Peace Brigade, to deploy around the mausoleum, near Balad, about 93 kilometres north of Baghdad.

Sadr's militia is also deployed in Samarra, a nearby city that houses the shrine of Imam Ali al-Hadi, the father of Sayid Mohammed whose mausoleum was attacked on Thursday.

A 2006 bombing destroyed the golden dome of the shrine of Ali al-Hadi and his other son, Imam Hasan al-Askari, setting off a wave of sectarian violence akin to a civil war.

IS militants have lost ground since last year to US-backed government forces and Iran-backed militias, but recent bombings have shown they still have the ability to strike outside the territory they control in northern and western Iraq.

A massive truck bomb killed at least 292 people in a mainly Shia shopping area of central Baghdad over the weekend, in the deadliest single bombing since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.


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[raptor22]

r.i.p ...

 

[laphroaig]

This is getting too much man.

Will it ever end?

 

[Max]

RIP..

 

[Joe Shearer]

I WILL not say rest in peace. I will say come back and destroy the souls of those who are leading this wave of hatred. Annihilate their souls if they exist, and damn them forever, beyond redemption.

 

[Full Moon]

Like it or not, it has turned into a medieval religious war in Iraq since 2003.

 

[f1000n]

Like it or not, it has turned into a medieval religious war in Iraq since 2003.

Those are products of the ideology exported by your clerics. The open Syrian borders (which borders Turkey with Erdogan bringing in all terrorists back in the day, that's the reason for the flow of foreign suicide bombers, most bombers are foreigners.

The security situation could be improved and it eventually will be once they will be denied ground in both Iraq and Syria. But the will and attempts for many blow up will remain thanks to a cancer inside Sunnism. One has to wonder, how come those Shi'ite armed groups remain so calm against the ordinary Sunnis.

The problem is inside Sunnism, we see terror all over the world from them. You're more likely to be blown up by a fellow Sunni than a Sh'a whether you like that or not.

 

[Timur]

Still no word of Europeans who help those extremists like the Chechen who planned the Istanbul airport attacks

They give them in two or three years European citizenship Everybody knows this is not possible to get it so fast Specially for non European kaukasier ppl..

This ppl are made radicals in Eu they were made this way by false pseudo imams (Mabe agents of SA or local state) no normal muslim let it be shia or sunni would attack a mosque.. Just brainwashed donkeys do it..
If they want to fight why don't they attack military relevant things? Because of the bigger plan to denounce Islam..

 

[Falcon29]

Those are products of the ideology exported by your clerics. The open Syrian borders (which borders Turkey with Erdogan bringing in all terrorists back in the day, that's the reason for the flow of foreign suicide bombers, most bombers are foreigners.

The security situation could be improved and it eventually will be once they will be denied ground in both Iraq and Syria. But the will and attempts for many blow up will remain thanks to a cancer inside Sunnism. One has to wonder, how come those Shi'ite armed groups remain so calm against the ordinary Sunnis.

The problem is inside Sunnism, we see terror all over the world from them. You're more likely to be blown up by a fellow Sunni than a Sh'a whether you like that or not.

You're downplaying the role of power hungry mentality among Middle Eastern people. They're all hungry for power, thinking running a nation is like running a political movement, or a religious community center, and hence they're not suitable for the position at all. Yet all of them will resort to forceful means, religious and non-religious propaganda, and down right disingenuous efforts to meet their goals. So you can blame ideology all you want, that's not going to affect the power struggles taking place. Even among those in power, there are sub-power struggles and competitions among them.

Now the world has found convenient platform to use, to excuse their incompetent governance, or get a reason to be adventurous and secure bonus interests. Of course that convenient platform is the 'terrorism model'. If there is poor governance, or struggling economy, or widespread corruption, the anti-terror efforts will not be serious enough for the people to set their eyes on failures of the government. This is seen with every government in the region. Israeli, Iraq, Saudi, Iranian, etc....They use this platform in different ways, Iran doesn't use it so much domestically, but it uses to secure regional interests or overstretch. Sometimes these interests are serious, and may be needed to be secured from someone other than terrorists. But terrorists excuse is much more efficient method to persuade population or scare international community from opposing their narratives.

This is seen all across:

-Assad is fighting terrorism, Syria is in struggle against terrorists
-Saudi Arabia: Assad, Iraqi militias and ISIS are terrrorists, and terrorism needs to be defeated
-Iraq/Iran: Same thing regarding Syria
-Bahrain: There are no uprisings, just Iranian funded terrorism
-Egypt: Crack down on terrorist political opposition
-Lebanon: Secure the country from terrorists
-Israel: The issue isn't the occupation or struggle for independence, it's terrorism
-Israeli Likud party: We will secure Israel from terrorists

.........

I can go on and on. World governments have exploited this issue big time. It's their number one talking point going into elections, intimidating political opposition, scaring population into submission, distracting from domestic matters, etc....

So I appreciate your effort to understand the bottom of the situation, regarding what inspires these individuals, but you are not looking at the larger picture, for whatever reason/s. I'm assuming that's because the current focus is regaining control of country from militias. Once that is done, I'm hoping you do look at larger picture, and don't follow the lead of general regional populace that are brainwashed into supporting the governing platform we see across the region, that is so very incompetent. If the general populace continue with their 'Middle Eastern mentality' crap, then the region will implode, and at some point in near future there will be food/water crisis which they can't solve. And the West will have to pay the price for their incompetence and idiocy.

 

[Full Moon]

Those are products of the ideology exported by your clerics. The open Syrian borders (which borders Turkey with Erdogan bringing in all terrorists back in the day, that's the reason for the flow of foreign suicide bombers, most bombers are foreigners................

Not exactly my friend. See the list of Shi'a terrorist organizations that work alongside the "Iraqi government of the Green Zone". The only difference with them is that they are smart enough not to attack Western targets. They do commit heinous atrocities against civilians. They do scream with bronze age sectarian slogans. They do think, that their victorious actions will bring the Mahdi (born in 869 AD) from his long-gone disappearance.

As you see, these groups are scattered into 50 different types of militias. Their number being 50 isn't strange if you know how the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) is operating. IRGC has gone way beyond the old colonial plan of "divide and conquer". Theirs is "spread hatred, divide, and rip into 1000 pieces".

 

[Serpentine]

Not exactly my friend. See the list of Shi'a terrorist organizations that work alongside the "Iraqi government of the Green Zone". The only difference with them is that they are smart enough not to attack Western targets. They do commit heinous atrocities against civilians. They do scream with bronze age sectarian slogans. They do think, that their victorious actions will bring the Mahdi (born in 869 AD) from his long-gone disappearance.

As you see, these groups are scattered into 50 different types of militias. Their number being 50 isn't strange if you know how the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) is operating. IRGC has gone way beyond the old colonial plan of "divide and conquer". Theirs is "spread hatred, divide, and rip into 1000 pieces".

Still you don't see them blowing themselves up among Sunnis, in mosques, markets, streets and almost all the allegations against them are never proved. Yes there maybe some very rare rogue elements as exceptions and they are regularly punished, but over all, these groups are crowns over heads of not only other groups, but also many other ME armies, yours included.

The cancer of ideology comes from your country, and has spread like a virus in the region. Good for everyone, the whole world knows its source. It's the dogmatism and intolerance in an infected and backward ideology that has given rise to extremists almost everywhere across Muslim world and beyond.

 

[Somali-Turk]

iraq is done beyond repair.R.I.P.

 

[HariPrasad]

At least 35 killed in triple suicide attack on Shia mausoleum in Iraq
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TIKRIT: The militant Islamic State (IS) group claimed a triple suicide attack on Thursday evening near the mausoleum of Sayid Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi north of Baghdad, which killed at least 35 people and wounded 60 others, according to Iraqi security sources.

A man detonated an explosive belt at the external gate of the mausoleum at around 11pm, allowing several gunmen to storm the site and start shooting at worshippers on the occasion of Eidul Fitr, according to the security sources.

At least one gunman blew himself up in the middle of the crowd while another was gunned down by the guard of the mausoleum before he could detonate his explosive belt.

The site also came under rocket fire during the attack that was claimed by IS. The militant group said in a statement the attack was carried out by three suicide bombers wearing explosive belts.

Pictures posted on social media showed a fire burning in the market located at the entrance of the Sayid Mohammed mausoleum. It was not clear if the site itself was damaged.

The attack on the mausoleum comes days after a suicide attack in Baghdad claimed nearly 300 lives.

Prominent Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had ordered his militia, the Peace Brigade, to deploy around the mausoleum, near Balad, about 93 kilometres north of Baghdad.

Sadr's militia is also deployed in Samarra, a nearby city that houses the shrine of Imam Ali al-Hadi, the father of Sayid Mohammed whose mausoleum was attacked on Thursday.

A 2006 bombing destroyed the golden dome of the shrine of Ali al-Hadi and his other son, Imam Hasan al-Askari, setting off a wave of sectarian violence akin to a civil war.

IS militants have lost ground since last year to US-backed government forces and Iran-backed militias, but recent bombings have shown they still have the ability to strike outside the territory they control in northern and western Iraq.

A massive truck bomb killed at least 292 people in a mainly Shia shopping area of central Baghdad over the weekend, in the deadliest single bombing since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.


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RIP.

 

[f1000n]

Not exactly my friend. See the list of Shi'a terrorist organizations that work alongside the "Iraqi government of the Green Zone".

The difference is these groups don't systematically target civillians, there have been a few occasions since 2014 where members of such groups commit crimes, though they get arrested. But isn't that the case with every armed group in the world?

US crimes in Abu Ghraib.
British forces committed crimes in Basra, read the recent news, they drowned civillians as well as kids.
Blackwater killed 30+ civillians in Baghdad.
1991 Al Amiriyah shelter bombing by the US air force that killed over 400 civillians
Saudi air force killed hundreds if not more of civillians with air to ground bombs.

The only difference with them is that they are smart enough not to attack Western targets.

Kataib hezbollah fired on an Apache last year.

http://www.military.com/video/opera...itia-fired-on-us-apache-in-iraq/4095406885001

Allied Shiite militia forces fired on a U.S. Apache military helicopter several days earlier in an incident which could easily have escalated dangerously. The Shiite militia members, who fired on the helicopter from an Iraqi Army base near Fallujah, did not bring the Apache down, and there was no indication they caused serious damage. Al-Abadi warned that if the Apache crew had returned fire, it could have caused significant loss of life at the Iraqi base.

They do scream with bronze age sectarian slogans. They do think, that their victorious actions will bring the Mahdi (born in 869 AD) from his long-gone disappearance.

As you see, these groups are scattered into 50 different types of militias. Their number being 50 isn't strange if you know how the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) is operating. IRGC has gone way beyond the old colonial plan of "divide and conquer". Theirs is "spread hatred, divide, and rip into 1000 pieces".

They're religious but their ideology doesn't teach them to kill everyone on sight unlike some other ideology. Best case scenario is that all units in the PMF drop the religious slogans and become a 2nd paramilitary/popular army/national guard force, but for now they're as they are. Iran has interests but that's another topic.

You all used to curse the Iraqi army before June 2014 when there were no militia's active anymore. You called it the Maliki army. Al Arabiya (ordered by the Saudi gov) called it Quwwat al Maliki. Now you have no choice but to state 'support' for the army given that the alternative are Shi'a groups allied to Iran, I think those groups did well in that.