Baghdad Cafe Bomb Kills 27

Iraq Car Bomb Aftermath.

Terror bombing has been a daily occurrences in Iraq ever since George W. Bush launched his pointless Whimsy War on the most secular, least jihadist regime in the Middle East, a regime that Ronald Reagan considered its linchpin ally - the only geopolitical "player" capable of keeping Iran in check.

Ironically, Iran won the Iraq War.

1. Pax on both houses: Iran Won The Iraq War

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   Mar 31, 2013 – Alan: For five years, it has been clear (to me) that Iran won the Iraq War. Ironically, Ronald Reagan was Saddam Hussein's staunchest ally ...
2. Pax on both houses: Iran Won The Iraq War. Here's What That Loss ...

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   Mar 24, 2013 – In a visit to Baghdad that was not announced in advance, Kerry told Maliki that the almost daily flights have become a lifeline for Syrian ...
3. Pax on both houses: Iran Won The Iraq War

   paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/12/iran-won-iraq-war.html

   Dec 20, 2011 – "I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! Don't do it!

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18 April 2013 

Iraq violence: Baghdad cafe hit by deadly bomb attack

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At least 27 people, including two children, have been killed and dozens more injured in a bomb attack on a cafe in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, officials have said.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside the cafe in the west of the city, police said.

No group has said it carried out the attack.

The violence comes ahead of Iraq's provincial elections on 20 April, the first in the country since 2010.

Emergency workers were still trying to pull out victims trapped in the rubble when part of the building collapsed, police told the Reuters news agency.

On Monday, a series of co-ordinated car bomb attacks took place across the country, claiming at least 31 lives and injuring more than 200 people.

Tensions are high between Iraq's Sunni and Shia, amid claims by the Sunni Muslim communities that they are being marginalised by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shia-led government.

Sunni Islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda have attempted to destabilise the government by stepping up attacks, mainly on Shia but also Sunni targets this year.

Although violence has decreased in Iraq since the peak of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, bombings are still common.