Terrorist attacks kill scores in Iraq

December 25th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Scores of people have been killed and dozen others injured in fresh waves of terrorist attacks across Iraq.

At least 17 people were killed and 34 others wounded after a car bomb exploded near a church in the Iraqi capital Baghdad as Christians were celebrating Christmas Day.

According to Iraqi security officials, the attack occurred in the Dura area in the southern part of Baghdad on Wednesday as worshippers were leaving the church.

“The attack targeted the church, and most of the martyrs are Christians,” a police colonel told AFP.

Another bomb explosion in the same area killed several people and injured many others.

Also a bomb went off in a commercial street in Baghdad’s western Amariyah neighborhood, killing four people and wounding 10 others.

In a separate bombing incident in the Abu Ghraib area, just west of the Iraqi capital, two people were killed and eight others wounded, according to the officials.

Officials also said that two policemen were gunned down in the city of Ramadi, the capital of the western Anbar province, as they were heading to work.

No group has claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks, but systematic bombings are a favorite tactic of al-Qaeda-linked groups that according to Iraqi officials seek to destabilize the country.

The United Nations says at least 8,000 people have lost their lives in Iraq so far this year.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry has said that militants have launched an open war in Iraq and they want to push the Middle Eastern country into chaos.

“The country is currently facing an open war from bloodthirsty sectarian forces that aim to plunge the country into chaos,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement issued on July 30.

YH/PR

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