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Iraqi al-Qaeda Claims Credit for Baghdad Bombings
on August 25, 2009 by Purger in Iraq, Comments (0)
Following last Wednesday’s string of bombings in Baghdad, which caused well over 1,000 casualties in a one-hour span and did major damage to several high profile government targets, speculation regarding the responsibility has come from several sources.
The US blamed al-Qaeda, the Iraqi government blamed Ba’athists, opposition figures in the government blamed infighting among the ruling elite. It seemed every group with an axe to grind had a convenient theory about who was actually to blame.
6 years after invasion, electricity still scarce in Baghdad
on August 15, 2009 by Purger in International News, Iraq, War, Comments (0)
BAGHDAD — Dark humor flips on when the lights go out in a city that still suffers from crippling power outages despite the billions of dollars that have been invested in its grid.
“Electricity is dead. Pray for its soul,” reads graffiti scrawled along a wall in central Baghdad’s Karrada neighborhood.
“I miss electricity so much I want to feel an electric shock, just so I know we have it,” said Falah Hasan Ali, 23, a resident of Baghdad’s Sadr City district who sleeps on his roof to escape the nighttime heat.
