World View: Multiple bombings across Iraq kill more than 60, mostly Shias

World View: Multiple bombings across Iraq kill more than 60, mostly Shias

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com:

  • Multiple bombings across Iraq kill more than 60, mostly Shias
  • Egypt under international criticism for deporting Syrian refugees

Multiple bombings across Iraq kill more than 60, mostly Shias

In a new paroxysm of violence in Iraq on Thursday, well over 60 peoplewere killed by a series of car bombings that struck across Baghdad,along with additional suicide bombings in northern Iraq. The bombstargeted Shia neighborhoods, and it’s assumed that the perpetratorswere al-Qaeda linked terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and theLevant/Sham/Syria (ISIS). President George Bush’s military “surge” in2007 was successful in ejecting al-Qaeda from Iraq, but since theAmerican withdrawal in December 2011, all that work has been comingundone. With Syria’s civil war continuing, the fault line betweenSunni and Shia Muslims is increasingly inflamed throughout theMideast, and is drawing both Sunni and Shia jihadists into the region.AFP and Reuters

Egypt under international criticism for deporting Syrian refugees

With millions of innocent Syrian civilians fleeing their homes toescape bombardment by heavy weapons supplied by Russia to thepsychopathic president Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the resources of manyneighboring countries are being overwhelmed. Some 300,000 of therefugees have fled to Egypt, which is under international criticismfor arresting them and deporting them back to Syria. However,Egyptian authorities say that the vast majority of the Syrian refugeesliving in Egypt are treated well, and only a small number are deported– those that commit crimes, and those that participate in protestssupporting the Muslim Brotherhood. Al Ahram (Cairo)

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