10 Dead As Gunmen Attack Baghdad Mall, Take 75 Hostages…(Coming To AmeriKa!?)
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
01/11/2016
Last week, two attacks on Sunni mosques in Iraq suggested a violent sectarian backlash may be in the cards for the war-torn country on the heels of Saudi Arabi’s move to execute prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
As we noted in “Iraq Says Mosque Bombings Were False Flag ISIS Attacks,” the sectarian issue is particularly divisive in post-Ba’thist Iraq and thus it wouldn’t exactly be a surprise if the country’ Shiite majority lashed out at Sunnis following al-Nimr’s rather untimely demise.
Iraqi officials however, said the attacks were likely false flags staged by ISIS in an effort to exploit the Sheikh’s execution and derail efforts to unite Sunni tribesman and Iran’s powerful Shiite militias in a coordinated effort to drive Islamic State from the country.
Now, gunmen have taken some 75 hostages at a mall in a Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad.
“Police and medical officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters, say the gunmen set off a car bomb at the entrance to the mall on Monday before moving in,” AP reports, adding that “the officials say another 25 people were wounded in the attack and that three police are among the dead.” Here’s an image from the scene:
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