Isis Baghdad hotel bombings: Death toll rises to 15 as police defuse third bomb after night of chaos

[yota691]

Isis Baghdad hotel bombings: Death toll rises to 15 as police defuse third bomb after night of chaos

 

 

 

 

 

Baghdad was rocked by two blasts on one of the busiest nights of the week

LIZZIE DEARDEN

 

 

 

Friday 29 May 2015

  

 

Panic took hold in Baghdad last night as the Iraqi capital was hit by co-ordinated bombings at two luxury hotels, which Isis fighters have claimed responsibility for.

At least 15 people died and dozens more were wounded in the explosions at the five-star Cristal Grand Ishtar and Babylon Warwick hotels.

The first bomb was detonated in the car park of the Babylon, frequently used for government meetings and news conferences, shortly before midnight (10pm BST).  Minutes later, the second blast hit the famous Cristal Grand Ishtar hotel, formerly the Sheraton.

In Iraq, like most Muslim-majority countries, the weekend starts on Friday to allow for Jumu'ah prayers and Thursday is one of the busiest nights for dining and socialising. 

Orla Guerin, a BBC correspondent, described how the second blast shook the broadcaster's office and said she heard gunfire and sirens in the aftermath of the explosions. Windows were blown out at the hotels, where entrances were severely damaged and cars were destroyed, starting huge fires that lit up the night sky and sent smoke over Baghdad.  Police said a third car bomb found near the Babylon was discovered and defused early on Friday before it could explode.

Both five-star hotels are heavily guarded and have security measures in place for vehicles trying to enter.Civilians and security forces inspect the aftermath of the car bomb attack at the Babylon hotel

They are known to be frequented by large numbers of officials, aid workers, journalists and Westerners and the Cristal, while it was still the Sheraton, was one of the most popular hotels in Baghdad before the Gulf War.

After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it was hit with mortars and rockets as the tallest building in Baghdad and was hit by another bomb attack in 2005 that closed it for a year. Almost 40 people died in another car bomb explosion outside the hotel in 2010.

Luxury hotels have also been targeted in terror attacks in Pakistan, Jordan and Indonesia in the last decade.

Members of Isis operating in Baghdad have claimed responsibility for the bombings, according to a translation of a bulletin by Charlie Winter, a researcher for the counter-terrorism organisation, the Quilliam Foundation. Civilians and security forces inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack at the Babylon hotel

The so-called Islamic State, which controls swathes of nearby Anbar province including the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, frequently uses car bombs and explosives in terror attacks on government strongholds.

Iraqi authorities lifted a decade-long night curfew on Baghdad early this year, seeking to restore a sense of normality to the capital as security forces battle Isis but the rate of bombings has increased.

Additional reporting by AP

[new york kevin]

What other reason does the Iraqi Special Forces, if one does exhist, enter Syria and destroy the ISIS communications building. There is no secret where it is or what they do there. *** for tat! Take the fight to them. Distract them. Anticipate and respond instead of react. Plan, plan, plan.

If successful, bomb their Banking HQ, then the/those iSIS Hotels they claim to have .

[eburt]

What a mess -

[Officiallytook]

Yes what a mess...

But so is the USA...

If the IMF WB came here tomorrow to revalue our currency...we would hold .60 not dollars....

And we still have crime and corruption everyday...look at those banks that stole trillions of had to pay a fine...

No jail no currency devalue notta...

I'm just showing how despite what's occurring in Iraq...they could still succeed with economic and monetary reform delete zeros rv etc what ever they want...

[Officiallytook]

Instead of negging go look on the IMF website...see how much it cost for a SDR note...

https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/param_rms_mth.aspx

[zzztop]

Don't worry.  All smoke and mirrors.  Can't believe you guys believe this article.  RV tomorrow.

["Fred"]

Don't worry. All smoke and mirrors. Can't believe you guys believe this article. RV tomorrow.

You've been drinking with tnt tony,starting the weekend early? If it happens great but we've heard that a few times before. I'd be on the first flight out.

[Laid Back]

This hotels are in the green zone.

No security, No RV

[SnowGlobe7]

I am sad..there is no way this is good

[uncirculd]

Some people have nothing to say....they just smack down on everyone else's life...so I think those who run off to join and are part of this murdering spree have nothing to say... their name says it all...i sin i sin (isis)    One track mind.  No one is in full charge and all are flesh and can die by the sword or bullet, or bomb if you must, but since they have nothing to say...and have a one track mind of genocide,  I don't guess they really know where they are gonna go when they do these rituals.  It takes "YEARS" to understand what they claim to know.  Any political movement mixed with religion.   So, the majority of them are boys, and what they know is the sword, and it's ok for the young boys to die for the old ones since they are wimps.    What they don't know though is: Live by the sword, die by the sword and it doesn't end with the fleshy death.  They have one thing right, they will live forever.  It's pitiful, his people perish for lack of knowledge.  So sad.  It is very hard to believe that one takes one's life for pure selfish reasons, and they think it is justified.  I know good and well, they know it's wrong to kill for the sake of killing.  So, these are not of this human race, they are beast, and these beast have souls that are going, going, and some gone.   Shame on the spiritual leaders who have been leading the children to savagery. 

[yota691]

Iraq announces arrest of cell linked Balbgdada involved bombings in Baghdad

Friday 29-05-2015 | 10:25:21

 

 

 

 

 

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Twilight News / spokesman for the Ministry of Interior Saad Maan announced Friday evening that the General Directorate of Intelligence managed to arrest linked to al Daash led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the west of the capital Baghdad Mansour district cell.

 

Maan said in a statement responded to Twilight News "This cell confessed to committing a number of terrorist crimes have been seized in possession of 46 Zain SIM card type used the bombing and a pistol fitted with a silencer and a lighter blow up a number 55 and number 60 phones spool."

 

And adjust the possession of the group, according to Maan, "a printed badges badges and a number of non-printed cards, as well as wheel type Starks, a white color that transport materials and cut inside."

["Fred"]

Wonder where our head cheese in the white house is,probably off to play golf for the weekend.

[Boozer]

Fred  I agree, even he was in the WH he still would not get it Right...

["Fred"]

That's one thing governments are good at is screwing things up.

[sandfly]

THANKS

[yota691]

Deputy linking the targeting of Babylon and Sheraton hotel sack Najafi and demanding an immediate investigation to identify the perpetrators

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BAGHDAD / Sky Press: considered an MP for the coalition of state law Emotions grace, Saturday, targeting Babylon and Sheraton hotel, hours after the sacking of the governor of Nineveh Ethel Nujaifi of "the wonders of coincidences," while demanded an urgent investigation to find out those who stand behind these bombings.

 

She said grace in a statement received "Sky Press," that "the wonders of coincidences that are targeting the largest two hotels in the capital, car bombs after hours on the House vote to approve the dismissal of Najafi, and although we as Iraqis we are exposed every now and then to terrorist attacks by scum Daash planning Clients of Turkey and others, but the recent bombings that claimed the lives of a number of citizens among the dead and wounded carrying many question marks. "

 

It added that "the security agencies to expedite an investigation into the terrorist attacks at the highest levels away from any political pressures, and disclose the true identity of the planners and perpetrators whatever their influence strong and shamed, try and take down their comeuppance," indicating that "the Iraqi people will be held accountable soon all killers The makers of death, whether from customers or Aldoaash hiding behind their office or their bloc. "

 

The two car bombs targeting Babylon and the Sheraton hotel in central Baghdad the day before yesterday evening, which led to the martyrdom and wounding a number of civilians.

[yota691]

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