Iranian backed group behind latest bombing

Washington Post:

A Shiite "special group" leader was behind a car bombing that killed and wounded scores of people Tuesday evening in northwest Baghdad, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

The bombing in the Hurriyah neighborhood had the hallmarks of large-scale attacks in predominantly Shiite areas that in the past have been attributed to Sunni insurgent groups.

But a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said a "special group" led by Haydar Mehdi Khadum Al Fawadi ordered the attack in an effort to re-ignite sectarian tension in the area. The U.S. military uses the term special groups to describe bands of Shiite fighters backed by Iran.

"His intent was to disrupt Sunni resettlement in Hurriyah in order to maintain extortion of real estate rental income to support nefarious activities," Lt. Col. Steve Stover said in an e-mail.

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This goes beyond mass murder for Allah. It is mass murder for extortion and money to support a criminal enterprise back by the government of Iran. These are desperate men with no shame. They are also losing this war.

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