Iraq - Baghdad Car bombs target shopping districts, 126 dead, July 2016

[Everyday Grace]

The slaughter of civilians in three large attacks in the past week alone – in Istanbul on Tuesday, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Friday, and in Baghdad on Sunday – suggests that militant actions beyond the caliphate’s borders are taking place more frequently and not necessarily with any overt direction from some caliphate headquarters. Even more alarmingly, a growing number of attacks, starting with those in Paris and Brussels, were conducted by gangs of assailants instead of by an individual gunman.

“What’s striking to me about the Istanbul and Dhaka attacks is that both weren’t done by lone wolves at all,” said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA counterterrorism official and analyst of al-Qaida and the Islamic State who is at the Brookings Institution. “These were done by teams of terrorists working with a very thought-through attack plan. I call them ‘wolf pack’ attacks. They are rapidly becoming the Islamic State’s signature.”

While the core of the caliphate in Iraq and Syria has been pummeled by coalition airstrikes and by armies and militias fighting them on the ground, Islamic State soldiers have spread throughout the Middle East and far afield. Attacks in Turkey, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Libya, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait and several European capitals, and the lone-wolf attacks in Orlando, Florida, and San Bernardino, California, show the Islamic State’s potency as an ideology.

Much more at the link:
https://www.denverpost.com/2016/07/05/islamic-states-ambitions-allure-grow-as-territory-shrinks/

 

[Everyday Grace]

The death toll from Sunday's suicide bombing in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has risen to 250, the Iraqi government says, making it the deadliest such attack since the 2003 US-led invasion.

Always more:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36720720

And yet, in the context of the recent string of less deadly terrorist attacks in Turkey, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia—and particularly compared with the mass slaughter in Paris in 2015—the “international outpouring of grief [over the violence in Baghdad] was more muted,” the Post observes.

Terrorism does not terrorize equally. It is not processed equitably. The identities of the perpetrators and victims, the scale and apparent significance of the massacre, the setting and novelty of the violence—all these variables shape how grief is expressed, and who expresses it, after an attack. As a result, outpourings of grief don’t always align with death tolls. In the case of Iraq, years of grinding conflict in the country may have numbed many people to Sunday’s carnage.

That numbness inures us not just to the human suffering in Baghdad, but also to realities that help explain the origins of terrorism, at a time when its sources—Is this really about radical Islam? Power politics? Economic grievances? Social alienation?—are the subject of fierce debate.

In 2014, Iraq alone suffered a third of the world’s terrorism fatalities. Baghdad became the world’s deadliest city in terms of terrorism.

Much more:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/iraq-terrorism-isis-world/489974/

 

[mikkismom]

Can we change the thread title to 250? They all mattered.


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[Everyday Grace]

Baghdad. Again.

24 July 2016

So-called Islamic State has said it was behind a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, that has killed more than 20 people and injured at least another 35.

The attack targeted the entrance to the mainly Shia Muslim area of Kadhimiyah in north-west Baghdad.

The suicide bomber reportedly carried out Sunday's attack on foot. Both members of the security forces and civilians were among the dead.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36878320

 

[HMSHood]

Can we change the thread title to 250? They all mattered.


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How about 292?

Baghdad blast killed 292, many burned alive
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/af...th-toll-Baghdad-blast-rises-292-minister.html

I wonder if they identified the perpertrators of that awful crime.

The terrorists are definetely injustice collectors as they are driven by revenge. An all too common thing we have seen lately. In this case, this would be vicarious injustice collector.

On Wound Collectors
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spycatcher/201509/wound-collectors

Identifying The Next Mass Murderer—Before It’s Too Late
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...ntifying-the-next-mass-murderer-it-s-too-late

The Dangerous Injustice Collector: Behaviors of Someone Who Never Forgets, Never Forgives, Never Lets Go, and Strikes Back!
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/vio.2014.1509

Psychology of Terrorism - National Criminal Justice Reference Service
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/208552.PDF

The Lone Terrorist in the Workplace
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-forensic-files/201412/the-lone-terrorist-in-the-workplace

Injustice Collectors and Leakage
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/criminal-minds/201205/injustice-collectors-and-leakage

Websleuth Radio Interview Of Tina Meier describing Lori Drew
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/websleuths/2013/09/30/tricias-true-crime-radio-adult-cyber-bullying

Starting at the 20:40 mark. Tina Meier's describes Lori Drew as a bitter and insecure person who is very resentful. She makes her life about complaining, which characterizes Islamists like ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Al Shebab, etc. This is not to equate Drew with Islamists who have massive body counts. Drew is vicarious and driven by revenge like them, but on a small scale. Meier's description of Drew fits it well. They make their life about grievances and revenge.

They are very unhappy and resentful as they are extremely envious of others. It is always about them as they are not pleasant people to be around. They are professional victims that rage at the world. They are perpetual victims and feel like society marginalizes them. They blame everyone else, but themselves.