{"id":37656,"date":"2013-09-20T08:56:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T12:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37656"},"modified":"2013-09-20T08:56:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T12:56:30","slug":"battle-of-the-mosques-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37656","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the mosques in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eighteen people were killed in a Shiite mosque bombing in Iraq today, according to AFP<\/a> in a recent spate of mosque bombings. Two weeks ago<\/a>, a Sunni mosque was bombed claiming 39 souls. The Sunni bombing happened when a bomb hidden in the air conditioning system detonated during a packed service. Today’s bombing wasn’t the only action in Iraq;<\/p>\n

The blasts came a day after the bodies of 10 young men who had been shot dead were found in Baghdad, another reminder of the sectarian conflict, during which militants frequently carried out summary executions.<\/p>\n

Also on Friday, mortar rounds killed a young girl west of Samarra and wounded two members of her family.<\/p>\n

And gunmen kidnapped and killed a soldier in the northern province of Kirkuk, while a roadside bomb north of the city of Baquba killed one person and wounded three.<\/p>\n

The United Nation’s deputy special representative for Iraq, Gyorgy Busztin, expressed “extreme concern” this week about sectarian-based displacement of Sunnis and members of the small Shabak minority, and the killing of Sunnis in the country’s south.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The New York Times<\/a> reports on Muqdadiya, a Balkanized town near Baghdad, where the Sunni-Shiite civil war is a part of daily life;<\/p>\n

It started in mid-July, when a fragile tranquillity was shattered after a teenage boy, in a baggy T-shirt concealing a vest of explosives, walked into a Shiite funeral tent and detonated himself while mourners ate a dinner of lamb, rice and tomato soup.<\/p>\n

A resurgent Al Qaeda in Iraq was blamed for the bombing, and the bomber, it emerged, was a member of the local Sunni tribe, inflaming not just sectarian hatreds but local tribal rivalries.<\/p>\n

In the days after, locals say, Shiite gunmen, some with ties to militias, others out for tribal justice, terrorized Sunni neighborhoods, killing some and demanding that others leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s worse than anything that ever happened before,\u201d said Ali Jassim, another displaced resident, who, like others interviewed for this article, gave only an informal name, withholding his full name for safety reasons. \u201cIt was people attacking at night with machine guns, not considering if there were kids or women or old men.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, as I said before, we were told that the killing would stop when the American troops left. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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