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ISIL takes responsibility for deadly Baghdad suicide bombings

22-01-2021

By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies

BAGHDAD/ KABUL/ KARACHI: The real and genuine Taliban (Wahabis/ Takfiris/ Daesh/ Islamic State/ IS) those were prepared, created, trained, introduced and finally launched during the Afghan Jihad in 1979 (that is not only continued till today in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Damascus, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia/ KSA, Kuwait, Bahrain and especially in Pakistan but also extended across the world) by the then Chief Marshal Law Administrator and the President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, facilitated, sponsored, supported, funded and functioned by KSA, Israel and United State of America/USA and later on these Taliban have been changing their names, recognitions, shapes, faces and identifications with different naming, classifications, categories, forms, features and figures like Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan (TTP), Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Jamat-ul-Ahrar (JA), Lashkar-e-Taiba/ Tayyab (LeT) in Pak-Afghan region and al-Qaeda, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in South & Central and Arab and Gulf regions and Boko Haram in African countries particularly in Nigeria, Sudan and Niger.

The terror activities of Taliban are not only continued since its creation but their existence is also still valid particularly in Pakistan as well as above said regions while the regimes of said countries have either been denying the existence of Taliban or other said terror groups or have claimed or claiming that now they have cleared Taliban from their countries through different types of military operations or civil or other actions and plans and but neither the formally general masses of the globe and informally immigration authorities of the world believe that the regimes of above said counties speak truth and their claims are genuine, they also believe in statements, press releases, news and views or they are totally illiterate, immature, uneducated, abnormal or the companions of said terrorists or terror organizations, sources claimed.

Sources further revealed that the Australian immigration authorities especially some case officers link one case to another or search entire family background, others’ details and personal search at the time of decision of a single applicant which is not only against their own laws but also the violation of privacy acts.

Sources also challenged that there were Taliban in Pakistan, they still exists with different names and organizations or groups and they will remain in their native country because of direction supervision, support and shelter of some secret agencies, governmental figures, officials, authorities, security forces, politicians and religious pundits while the said ‘characters’ also play dual Hypocritical games as they needed as they played first time in Pakistan on 11-10-1979 hence, the current on 02-01-2021 when

11 coal miners were killed in the Mach area of Balochistan after armed militants (Taliban/ LeJ) kidnapped and took them to a nearby area before slaughtering them.

Taliban always target Shia Muslims in Pakistan as well as worldwide like attack at Shia mosque in Melbourne (Australia), Islamic Centre of London (UK), Shia mosque on Toronto (Canada), Hussani Imambargah in Paris (France), Zehra Trust in Milan (Germany). If there is no existence of Taliban in Pakistan as claimed by Pakistani agencies and security forces then why the killings, enforced missing, kidnapping, torturing and genocide of Shia Muslims including women and children continued in Pakistan and who kills them and why and how the Taliban or above said organizations and groups take responsibilities of terror bids, sources concluded and victims questioned.

The ISIL (ISIS) group has claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing, the deadliest in nearly three years that ripped through a crowded market in central Baghdad on Thursday, killing 32 people and wounding 110 others.

The first attacker drew a crowd at the bustling market in the capital’s Tayaran Square by claiming to feel sick, and then detonated his explosives belt, the Interior Ministry said.

As more people then flocked to the scene to help the victims, a second suicide bomber set off his explosives.

The attack is the first twin bombing in Baghdad since January 2018, when 35 people were killed and 90 injured in the same square that was hit on Thursday.

The open-air market, where second-hand clothes are sold at stalls, had been teeming with people after the lifting of nearly a year of COVID-19 restrictions across the Middle Eastern country.

A photographer at the scene said security forces had cordoned off the area, where blood-soaked clothes were strewn across the muddy streets and paramedics were rushing to take away the casualties.

The Health Ministry said those who lost their lives had died on the scene of the attack, and that most of the wounded had been treated and released from hospital.

After midnight, ISIL posted a claim of responsibility for the attack on its online propaganda channels.

ISIL remains operational

A journalist said despite the Iraqi government declaring it has territorially defeated ISIL; the group never really went away.

“(ISIL) had a relatively seamless transition into an insurgency and even though it was pushed out from the urban areas into the rural areas, it continued to operate and stage attacks on security forces and checkpoints in remote areas,” she said, speaking from Baghdad.

Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has acknowledged that ISIL is still a threat, and that the country needed support from the region and international countries, she continued.

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