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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsal-qaida surges back in iraq, reviving old fears
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ_AL_QAIDAS_RESURGENCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-13-02-17-26BAGHDAD (AP) -- First came the fireball, then the screams of the victims. The suicide bombing just outside a Baghdad graveyard knocked Nasser Waleed Ali over and peppered his back with shrapnel.
Ali was one of the lucky ones. At least 51 died in the Oct. 5 attack, many of them Shiite pilgrims walking by on their way to a shrine. No one has claimed responsibility, but there is little doubt al-Qaida's local franchise is to blame. Suicide bombers and car bombs are its calling cards, Shiite civilians among its favorite targets.
Al-Qaida has come roaring back in Iraq since U.S. troops left in late 2011 and now looks stronger than it has in years. The terror group has shown it is capable of carrying out mass-casualty attacks several times a month, driving the death toll in Iraq to the highest level in half a decade. It sees each attack as a way to cultivate an atmosphere of chaos that weakens the Shiite-led government's authority.
Recent prison breaks have bolstered al-Qaida's ranks, while feelings of Sunni marginalization and the chaos caused by the civil war in neighboring Syria are fueling its comeback
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al-qaida surges back in iraq, reviving old fears (Original Post)
xchrom
Oct 2013
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spanone
(135,838 posts)1. ...and mr bu$h paints puppies
doc03
(35,340 posts)2. So after all our blood and treasure we went from a dictator we had under control to
al Qaida. I thought the idea was to bring democracy to the middle east. Another GWB fail, John Kerry was right when he said the "W"
stood for WRONG.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)3. Of course they are. We tear the place all to hell and expect our everything to go our way. Even
war Can be run according to disaster capital rules. Destroy everything and expect a garden to grow.