22 killed, many 70 injured in Pakistan mosque explosion. Taliban claim responsibility.

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Mainstream media tell us, in reporting which is of dubious quality to say the least, that the war is won in Syria, there is only mopping up left to do in Iraq and once again the western powers are firmly in control, while fighting still rages in Syria and Iraq, Kurdistan and yemen, a new trouble spot is igniting in the Muslim world.

At least 22 people were reportedly killed after an attack by a suicide bomber targeted a Shi'ite mosque in northwestern Pakistan. Dozens were injured in the blast, which has been claimed by the Sunni Muslim paramilitary group, The Taliban.

The attack took place in the city of Parachinar as people gathered for Friday prayers near the women's entrance of a Shiite mosque in the central bazaar, according to Reuters.

Local official Ikramullah Khan said at least 22 people were killed and 70 others injured. A medical source cited by AFP put the number of injured at 57, including women and children.

Parachinar parliamentarian Sajid Hussain, cited by Reuters, described the blast as a suicide attack, noting that gunfire preceded the explosion. A military rescue helicopter has been sent to the scene to help evacuate the injured, according to local authorities.

The nearby Agency Headquarters Hospital said it received dozens of injured seeking treatment, and made an appeal for blood donors. "Patients are being brought to us in private cars and ambulances and we have received over three dozen patients so far,” Mumtaz Hussain, a doctor at the hospital, told Reuters.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has condemned the attack, vowing that the government will continue efforts to “eliminate the menace of terrorism.”

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed the attack in a message sent to AFP.

Parachinar is the capital of Kurram tribal region, a hotbed of the Pakistani security forces’ years-long battle against various militant groups. At least 21 people were killed there in a January vegetable market explosion.


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US-Created System In Iraq Is Collapsing: Protesters Storm Parliament

Protestors inside Baghdad's Green Zone (Source: New Straits Times, Malaya)

Less than two years ago, the US set up a puppet government in the mid-east state of Iraq when, following US pressure, on August 14, 2014 then prime minister al-Maliki agreed to stepped down and be replaced with Haider al-Abadi. Today, the regime is in chaos and the system set up by the US is collapsing. Yesterday protesters loyal to popular Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr broke through a security cordon into the Green Zone, home to government buildings and foreign embassies and outside of which the official government reportedly exercises little power. Once inside the protestors stormed the Iraqi parliament forcing MPs to flee. The government declared a state of emergency across all of Baghdad.

Video from inside the building showed crowds waving Iraqi flags and shouting slogans in support of a Shi'ite theocracy in the nation. Supporters of Sadr, whose fighters once controlled swaths of Baghdad and helped defend the capital from ISIS, have been protesting outside the Green Zone for weeks, responding to their leader's call to pressure the government to reform.

Brig. Gen. Saad Mann, a spokesman for the Iraqi military, told an NBC news team in Bagdhad: "All gates that lead to Baghdad are closed. No one is allowed to enter into Baghdad, only those who want to leave Baghdad can do so. There is no evacuation for the American staff inside the American embassy," he said.

A U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the American Embassy in Baghdad was not being evacuated, contrary to local reports. We expect that should the pro-US government fall, this will promptly change.

Security forces responsible for guarding the entrance to the area were not able to stop the demonstrators without opening fire so they let them in, the security source told NBC News. As a result, the protest is mostly peaceful for now even thought Saturday was the first time the protesters breached the compound's walls.


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Iran-backed Shi'ite militias threaten Turkey over incursion into Iraq

An Iraqi Shi'ite militia man patrols a town in Iraq's main oil region (Picture source: uk business insider


We reported last week, during our series of posts exposing the involvement of Turkish President Recep Erdogan and other members of his family in illegal oil trades with terror group ISIS and of facilitating the supply of arms and ammunition from the USA, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to ISIS guerilla forces using Turkey as a conduit, that Turkish troops had invaded northern Iraq.

It is not news of course that the Turkey, under the Sunni Muslim Erdogan regime, has been conducting a genocide against Kurdish ethnicity for many years. That the Kurds, up until the recent intervention of Russia, were the most effective force opposing Islamic State. In addition to violating international law by helping fund and arm terrorists, Turkey is then guilty of an incursion into another state's sovereign territory in violation of international law and United Nations treaty and of committing an act of war in shooting down a Russian aircraft that had not violated Turkish air space.

In spite of all that, backed by NATO which seems to intensify its push for war every week, Turkey has kept its troops in Iraqi Kurds territory.

Fed up of Turkey's war crimes and the approval of its NATO allies for these constant violations of international law, Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary groups with ties to Iran have threatened to use force against Turkey we learned via REUTERS on Wednesday, unless Turkish troops are withdrawn from Iraqi territory. The Turks had previously been given a 48-hour deadline by the government, but that expired without any movement.

Citing kurdish violations of its borders Turkey deployed a contingent of troops to a camp near the frontline in northern Iraq, provoking an outcry in Baghdad, which condemned it as a violation of sovereignty and asked NATO to intervene. Turkey of course is the current leading player in NATO's proxy war against Russia through Russian ally Assdad in Syria.

The area north of Mosul where the Turkish troops are stationed is under the control of Kurdish forces and Shi'ite militias currently have no presence there, which would make it difficult for them to follow through on the threats. However sources close to the Turkish government have leaked information about Erdogan planning to annex a slice of Iraqi territory including the oil region around Mosul.

The situation puts additional pressure on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is already under fire from the same Shi'ite factions over an announcement that the United States will send a new special operations force to conduct raids in Iraq.

Badr Brigade spokesman Karim al-Nuri compared the Turkish incursion to the occupation of Iraq by Islamic State militants and said "all options" were available.

"We have the right to respond and we do not exclude any type of response until the Turks have learned their lesson," Nuri said. "Do they have a dream of restoring Ottoman greatness? This is a great delusion and they will pay dearly because of Turkish arrogance."

Ankara says the troops are there as part of an international mission to train and equip Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State and will not withdraw them, although it said on Tuesday it would send no more. Baghdad says it never invited such a force.

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