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Friday, April 23, 2004

Iraqi Cops Arrest 5 in Basra Blasts

Associated Press

Police arrested five Iraqis on Friday believed linked to al-Qaeda and suspected in this week's suicide bombings in Basra, and the men led police to a stash of 20 tons of explosives...

The arrests came two days after suicide attackers set off car bombs outside police stations and a police academy in this Shiite-majority southern city, killing 74 people, including at least 16 children whose school buses were incinerated by the blast as they passed one of the stations.

Five car bombs were used in the attack, and police seized two more explosive-laden vehicles Wednesday before they could be detonated...
This is disturbing news. Al-Qaeda has been successful in its recruiting of Iraqi Sunni extremists. Suicide attacks by Iraqis make Al-Qaeda much more troublesome.

I suppose the good news is that they are focusing on killing Shia Arab Iraqis. This is to be expected. Salafi (i.e. fundamentalist) Sunnis consider the Shia to be heretics, so this type of attack is not hard to imagine. But if Iraqi Sunnis start conducting suicide attacks against other Iraqi Sunnis, then the situation could quickly spiral out of control.

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Posted by: Zayphar / 4/23/2004 03:33:00 PM
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