{"id":37771,"date":"2013-09-30T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37771"},"modified":"2013-09-30T08:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:12:38","slug":"spate-of-car-bombings-kill-50-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37771","title":{"rendered":"Spate of car bombings kill 50 in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/iraqi-officials-car-bomb-in-eastern-shiite-neighborhood-in-baghdad-kills-at-least-7\/2013\/09\/30\/42eef708-299d-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> reports that, in more than ten car bombings, more than 50 Iraqis were killed this morning at about the same time;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The deadliest of the day\u2019s bombings was in the eastern Sadr City district, where a parked car bomb tore through a small vegetable market and its parking lot, killing seven people and wounding 16, a police officer said.<\/p>\n<p>That was followed by a total of 10 parked car bombs, which went off in quick sequence in the Shiite neighborhoods of New Baghdad, Habibiya, Sabaa al-Bour, Kazimiyah, Shaab, Ur, Shula as well as the Sunni neighborhoods of Jamiaa and Ghazaliyah.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 other explosions also struck at outdoor markets or parking lots, killing 44 people and wounding 139, according to other police officers. Medical officials confirmed the causality figures in Monday\u2019s attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good that the violence has ended in Iraq now that there are no US troops in Iraq. It&#8217;s also good that al Qaeda has been &#8220;decimated&#8221;. Can you imagine what it&#8217;d be like if the reverse were true? No one has taken credit for the bombings, but most of them were in Shi&#8217;ite neighborhoods, so you go ahead and make your best bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that, in more than ten car bombings, more than 50 Iraqis were &hellip; <a title=\"Spate of car bombings kill 50 in Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37771\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spate of car bombings kill 50 in Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}