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Not Killed by American Troops: 46 Across Iraq in Suicide Bombings

Associated Press reports:

Suicide bombings tore through a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad and the relatively safe Kurdish area in the north Sunday as a wave of attacks killed at least 46 people across Iraq, officials said.

A surge in sectarian violence in recent months has heightened fears that Iraq is becoming a new battlefield, nearly two years after U.S. forces withdrew from the country. A period of calm after the pullout had raised hopes for a measure of normalcy in Iraq, but tensions have spiked amid Sunni anger over perceived mistreatment from the Shiite-led government. More than 4,500 people have been killed since April.

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Not Killed by American Troops: 6 in Kurdistan

The New York Times reports:

In the aftermath, Iraqi forces swept across Erbil, and Sulaimaniya, another major Kurdish city, setting up checkpoints and other security measures familiar to residents of other Iraqi cities.Officials said at least six people — all members of the Kurdish security forces — were killed and dozens more wounded in the attacks, which included at least five explosions. The violence gripped the region with the sort of fear that has long enveloped the rest of the country. A statement from the regional government said six attackers were also killed

Not Killed By American Troops: 50 Students Killed in Nigeria by Boko Haram

Slate reports, citing Reuters:

 

Suspected Islamists attacked a college in north-eastern Nigerian, killing as many as 50 students as they slept at the College of Agriculture in Yobe state, the BBC reports. The gunmen are widely believed to be members of the Boko Haram sect that is trying to overthrow Nigeria’s government to install an Islamic state.

“They started gathering students into groups outside, then they opened fire and killed one group and then moved onto the next group and killed them. It was so terrible," a surviving student tells Reuters.

Not Killed by American Troops: 159 People Massacred by Boko Haram

The BBC reports:

At least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials.

Disguised in military uniforms, the militants set up checkpoints outside the town of Benisheik and shot dead those trying to flee, witnesses said.

They also razed dozens of buildings in Tuesday's attack.

Boko Haram, which wants to create an Islamic state across Nigeria, has waged a deadly insurgency since 2009.

Then later this was updated on Al Jazeera:

slamist Boko Haram militants killed 159 people in two roadside attacks in northeast Nigeria this week, officials said, far more than was originally reported and a sign that a four-month-old army offensive has yet to stabilize the region.

In the first attack, on Tuesday, Boko Haram guerrillas wearing army uniforms stopped traffic on a highway between the cities of Maiduguri and Damaturu, dragging people out of their vehicles and killing them, with 143 bodies recovered so far.

Violence in northeast Nigeria has intensified over the past two months, as the armed group fights back against a military operation that President Goodluck Jonathan ordered in May to try to crush their four-year-old rebellion.

 

 

 

 

Not Killed By American Troops: 39 Killed by Terrorists at Mall in Kenya; 150 Wounded; 36 Still Hostage

Reuters reports: A brazen terrorist attack in a Nairobi shopping mall Saturday has left at least 39 people dead and more than 150 wounded, CNN is reporting.

Several British and American citizens are among the injured, but the majority of casualties are Kenyans, authorities told CNN. Some are children.

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The al Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Westgate Mall, and they are still holding 36 people hostage while surrounded by police. "They Kenyan govt is pleading with our Mujahideen inside the mall for negotiations. There will be no negotiations whatsoever," the group posted on Twitter.

Mercifully the Twitter account was finally deleted by the management.

But this brings into sharp relief the entire obscenity of J.M. Berger talking for months to an Al-Shabab terrorist on Twitter in the interests of "scholarship".

 

Not Killed by American Troops: 72 Killed in Iraq in Suicide Bombings

The Guardian reports:

Thousands of Iraqis have been killed in recent months, in the worst violence the country has seen since 2008.

The attack on the funeral was one of the largest single terrorist assaults on civilians in Iraq in recent years. It happened shortly before sunset in the densely populated Shia neighborhood of Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad.

Police said at least 72 people were killed and more than 120 were wounded in that attack. One bomber was able to drive up to the tent before detonating his bomb, and another on foot blew himself up nearby, police said. The explosions set the tents and several nearby cars on fire, sending a towering plume of thick black smoke over the city.