If not ISIS, who is to blame for Iraq’s Eid-al-Fitr bombings?
by Terrah Trimble - Jul 11, 2016
WASHINGTON, July 11, 2016 — Last weekend saw the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in almost a decade. The death toll now stands at 292, with another 200 wounded, many of them children.
The truck bomb was detonated late Saturday night, July 3. The attack took place in a shopping center in the Karrada district, where families shopped, ate, and prepared for the end of the holy month Ramadan, Eid-al-Fitr. Thousands of people were in the district celebrating the end-of-day fast.
A second bomb exploded early Sunday at an outdoor market in the Shaab district of southeastern Baghdad. This bombing did not result in massive casualties as in Karrada (five casualties), but both of these neighborhoods are predominately Shia.
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