Is the war in Iraq really over? Doesn’t seem so. Though, officially all have seen an end to the Iraqi war, but the aftermath has kept all on their tenterhooks.
Innumerable people have lost their lives during and after the war. There is no end to the blood bath. Never a day passes when there are no attacks. Saturday saw more than 45 Iraqis killed and dozens injured in suicide bombings. As insurgents step up their offensives against the Iraqi police and military, the American soldiers are also among the victims. The deadliest attack took place in Dora, Baghdad at a construction site, when a suicide bomber managed to sneak past checkpoint with a truck loaded with construction materials — and explosives. Fourteen policemen and six civilians were killed, and 26 people were wounded. Dora is an unstable area where Sunni Muslim insurgents have been chasing out Shiite residents.
In another similar incident involving suicide squad, three suicide car bombers struck midday in Qaim, a town near the Syrian border in Anbar province, a hub of the Sunni insurgency. The first two targeted police stations, while the third detonated explosives at an Iraqi army and police checkpoint leaving at least six policemen dead and nine wounded. The Sunni insurgent group Al-Qaeda in Iraq has taken the responsibility for the attacks.
Third such incident occurred in Tall Afar, about 40 miles from the Syrian border, when a suicide bomber detonated a belt of explosives in a buzzling Sunni-dominated commercial district, killing 10 people and wounding three. In Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad, 11 people were killed when an explosives-laden truck blew up near a Shiite mosque.
The attacks being carried out on innocent Iraqis are burdening the country further and pulling it towards the bins. The war has stopped, but when will the violence cease, questions every average Iraqi. Is there any hope of peace in the country? If yes, than when? The blood bath must stop before entire Iraq turns into a grave.
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