The 19 September 2010 Baghdad bombings were a series of bomb attacks in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

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that killed at least 31 people, in two neighbourhoods of the capital. Over a hundred more were wounded. On 24 September the

Islamic State of Iraq The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; ar, دولة العراق الإسلامية '), commonly referred to as al-Qaeda in Iraq ( ar, القاعدة في العراق '), is a militant Salafist jihadist group that aimed to establish an Islamic sta ...

claimed responsibility for the attack.

Background

Iraqis blamed the political deadlock in their country for the attacks as Iraqi authorities are struggling to form a unity government since March 2010 elections which rendered no single bloc to form a majority win and hence, depending upon each other, for forming a coalition government. Further the attacks in recent days also coincided with the USA's decision to downsize its troops in Iraq and handing over the security to Iraqi forces.

Attacks

On 19 September 2010 two car bombs exploded in the Iraqi capital almost simultaneously at around 10:10 am. The first (and most powerful) car bomb exploded in the residential

Mansour district Al Mansour ( ar, المنصور) is one of the nine administrative districts in Baghdad, Iraq. It is in western Baghdad and is bounded on the east by Karkh district in central Baghdad, to the north by Kadhimiya, to the west by Baghdad Internation ...

killing 10 people. The attack was in front of the local sales office of Asiacell (an Iraqi mobile phone company), although it is not clear if this was the specific target. Minutes later, a second attack occurred, in the predominantly

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neighborhood of Al Kadhimiyah. Apparently aimed at an office of the

Iraqi Federal Police The Iraqi Police (IP) is the uniformed police force responsible for the enforcement of civil law in Iraq. Its organisation, structure and recruitment were guided by the Coalition Provisional Authority after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and it is ...

and the National Security Ministry in Adan Square, it killed approximately 21 people and injured 71. A witness described the attack; "It was a

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– the driver stopped and told people nearby that he was going to go see a doctor, a few minutes later, it exploded."

Perpetrators and aftermath

On 24 September, l-Qaida's the Islamic state of Iraq front group in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack.https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmSSCiqGwD9IEFOTO0

Background

Attacks

Perpetrators and aftermath

References

See also