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Iraq: Suicide Bomb Attack on Iraqi Parliament -
April 12th, 2007 |
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“An Islamic
insurgency group that includes Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility today
for a suicide bomb attack on the Parliament building Thursday that killed one
person and wounded 22. The group, the Islamic State of Iraq, issued a
statement on the Internet a day after the attack because it said it wanted to
allow its members to withdraw from the area. The SITE Institute, which tracks
militant postings, said the claim is authentic. [… T]he group said in the
statement [:] ‘A heroic knight of the Islamic State of Iraq, may God bless
its men, went inside the crowd of the infidels of the so-called Parliament on
Thursday, April 12, 2007. God has destroyed the crowds of defectors and
infidels.’ […]” Excerpt of a New York
Times article from
April 13th, 2007. |
Parliament canteen after the bombing |
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The Video |
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External view: link file format: .avi |
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The Aftermath of the Bombing |
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People leaving the building (I) |
People leaving the building (II) |
The destroyed canteen |
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Video & Photo Credits The Video/Background photo 1) The video is footage from al-Hurrah television. A Shiite member of
the Iraqi parliament, Jalaluddin al-Sagheer, was giving a television
interview when the attack took place. Photo: The site of Thursday’s suicide
bomb blast at the Iraqi parliament cafeteria in Baghdad. - April 13th,
2007 - Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters; The Aftermath of the Bombing 1) & 2) Image
taken from video footage shows people leaving the scene of a suicide bomb
blast where three Iraqi lawmakers were killed in Baghdad. - April 12th,
2007 - Reuters TV/Reuters; 3) Site of Thursday's
suicide bomb blast at the Iraqi parliament cafeteria in Baghdad. - April 13th,
2007 - Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters; |
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