4/13/10 - Liquor Store Bombing - Baghdad, Iraq
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
12:14 PM
Claire Morcos
Labels: 04/10 , Baghdad , Bomb (ambiguous) , Iraq , Unconfirmed , 3 comments
Date: April 13th, 2010
Method: Bomb
Location: A liquor store in Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 3
Injury Toll: 7
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed
The Associated Press reports:
The noontime liquor store bombing in an eastern Baghdad neighborhood took place after people posing as customers left behind a black plastic bag filled with explosives in the shop, an Iraqi police official said. The Christian owner of the store was among those killed, the police official said.
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I don't know if it's such a smart idea having a liquor store in Iraq.
Notice how the AP makes no mention that the bomb may have been planted by Al-Quaeda, but conveniently mentions that the owner of the store was Christian.
I find this kind of writing very interesting. It hints at a perpetrator, and suggests that the attack is a hate-crime towards Christians. Very covert.
Iraqi Christians are often targeted by Muslim extremists in Iraq. Extremists often view Christians in Iraq as being somehow complicit in the American invasion. Half of the Iraqi Christians fled Iraq at the beginning of the war as violence towards them increased dramatically.