262 Killed, 228 Wounded in Iraq Bombings, Battles

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262 Killed, 228 Wounded in Iraq Bombings, Battles
 Posted By Margaret Griffis On    August 15, 2015 @ 9:04 pm   In Uncategorized |     3 Comments    

At least 262 were killed and 228 were wounded in fresh violence:

In Baghdad, a blast that killed 15 people at a car dealership in Habibiya also left about 65 injured; the dealership is in an area that transitions from Baghdad into Sadr City. An I.E.D. left on a commercial street in al-Askan killed three people and wounded 25 more. Two people died and 12 were wounded by a blast in the Jisr Diyala neighborhood.

A blast in Taji killed two people and wounded eight more.

Three people were killed in a bombing in Madaen; 19 more were wounded.

A bomb in Mariam Bek on Friday killed four people and wounded nine more.

In Baiji, a suicide bomber killed seven security personnel and wounded five more.

Four people were wounded in a blast in Abbasi.

In Shirqat, airstrikes left 125 militants dead and 70 wounded.

At the Alas and Ajil oil fields, security personnel killed 50 militants.

Security forces killed 29 militants in Husayba.

Fifteen militants were killed near Daquq.

Missile strikes in Fallujah left six militants dead and 11 wounded.
 


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[EdinVA]

Iraq is almost as bad a Chicago.
We may have to do something about this soon...

[Right_in_Virginia]

Anyone miss Saddam yet?   

[EdinVA]

Anyone miss Saddam yet?   

He may have been brutal but maybe that is all they understand.

[Right_in_Virginia]

He may have been brutal but maybe that is all they understand. 

I doubt he would have had patience for ISIS.  Even though a Sunni, his true religion was power.

[kevindavis007]

I doubt he would have had patience for ISIS.  Even though a Sunni, his true religion was power.

The guy who rules what is left of Syria is a dictator like Saddam was..

[flowers]

Thanks to team obama.

[kevindavis007]

Thanks to team obama.

I seem to recall that he said that Iraq was stable before he pulled out the troops..

[musiclady]

I seem to recall that he said that Iraq was stable before he pulled out the troops..

Yes, indeed.  And Biden called it the 'greatest accomplishment of the Obama administration.'

Guess they forgot temporarily that everything everywhere through all history was Bush's fault.