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Iraq’s shias targeted in deadly bomb blasts
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At least 72 killed in co-ordinated wave of attacks in Baghdad and Nasiriyah as sectarian tension resurfaces

By: Martin Chulov The December bombings, which the country's Sunni vice
guardian.co.uk killed more than 60, were claimed by president, Tariq al-Hashemi,
the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida- with terrorism.
Bombs targeting Shia Muslims have inspired Sunni jihadist group that for
killed 72 people in Baghdad and the past four years has attempted to Hashemi has since sought
southern Iraq in a deadly start to a reignite the sectarian divisions that refuge in the Kurdish north,
tore Iraq apart in 2006-07.
and Sunni legislators in
new year already heightened by fast-
1390 دی 16 هعمج - 1168 هرامش / نویدهم لاس Most of the dead were Shia pilgrims culprit for Thursday's attacks, which Iraq's parliamentary speaker, demonstrators and defectors in
increasing sectarian tensions.
Baghdad have been refusing
The group is almost certainly also the to turn up to parliament.
walking to the holy city of Karbala were the latest in at least 15 similar Ousama al-Nujaifi, also a
from Nasiriyah. A suicide bomber events over the past three years that Sunni, has released a statement
was walking among the men and have taken a heavy toll on Iraq's condemning the latest violence.
clashes with forces loyal to President
detonated himself as a soldier tried Shias, and in some cases minorities
However the streets of Iraq's Sunni Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian leader is
to tackle him. The blast killed 48 and such as Christians and Yazidis.
provinces reportedly remain restive. a member of the Alawite sect, which
wounded more than 100.
None of the earlier bombings had been Sunni heartland areas, such as has ties to Shia Islam.
In Baghdad, a series of bombs successful in their aim of drawing the Anbar and Diyyala, are implacably
shortly after dawn, all in Shia Shias back into battle. The various opposed to Maliki, whom they say Senior US officials, including the
neighbourhoods, killed another 24 Shia militias, such as the Jeish al- is moving to reinforce the post- CIA director David Petraeus, and US
people on Thursday. The bombings Mehdi – a key protagonist during the Saddam dominance of Shias, who army chief of staff, Ray Odierno, have
hit Sadr City, in the north-east of the sectarian war – have remained stood are country's majority sect but were travelled to Baghdad in recent weeks
city, and Qhadimeyah in the north down for almost three years, in which widely persecuted under the three- to meet with Iraqi leaders, who they
west. time a Shia majority government has decade rule of the former dictator. worked closely with until US forces
attempted to consolidate its hold on withdrew in mid-December, formally
They marked the second co- Iraq's fractured political landscape. Increasing sectarian conflict in ending the nine year war.
ordinated attacks targeting Shias, or neighbouring Syria is feeding into
government security forces, in the Though not directly related, the latest tensions in Iraq, with tribal leaders The US and much of Europe fear
past three weeks, underscoring yet bombings appear tailored to tap in in Anbar confirming last month to lingering divisions inside Iraq
again the deep divisions that remain to new sectarian tensions sparked the Guardian that local men have and hardening sectarian positions
in Iraq nine years after Saddam by Iraq prime minister Nouri al- sought permission to travel across the elsewhere in the region could prove a
Hussein was ousted. Maliki's move last month to charge border to support Sunni anti-regime combsutible mix.
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