2016 Karrada bombing
July 2016 Karrada bombing | |
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Part of the Loss of Fallujah |
On 3 July 2016,
ISIL issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, naming the suicide bomber as Abu Maha al-Iraqi. There were reports that the source of the blast was a refrigerator van packed with explosives. The explosion caused a huge fire on the main street. Several buildings, including the popular Hadi Center, were badly damaged.
On 18 October 2021, Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa Al-Kadhimi announced that Ghazwan al-Zawbaee, the man behind the bombing was arrested by Iraqi security forces.[5][6]
Background
The
The Baghdad bombings were the third mass killing of civilians by ISIL militants in that past week, following the
Attack and response
The suicide truck bomb hit a shopping area in the upper class Shia-majority district of
The initial death toll directly due to the bombing had been "limited", but the fire caused by the bombing trapped people in shopping centres, which lacked any emergency exits.[15] The bombing killed at least 324 people and injured at least 223.[16][17][18][19] Unconfirmed reports state that the car bombs may have passed checkpoints where Iraqi security forces still use fake bomb detectors such as the ADE 651.[20][21][22]
In the aftermath of the attack, Baghdad Operations Command claimed it had arrested members of a militant cell who were connected to the bombing.[13]
On 28 August 2023, the government of Iraq announced that three members of ISIL had been executed by hanging for the terrorist attack. Among those reportedly executed was the supposed mastermind of the attack, Ghazwan al-Zawbaee.[23]
Other attacks
A second roadside explosion occurred in the neighborhood of Sha'ab in northern Baghdad around midnight, killing at least five people and injuring 16.[13]
A third bombing targeted members of
A fourth bombing in
Casualties
The
Abdel Ghani Saadon, the general manager of Rusafa Health Directorate, issued a statement noting that the "hospitals of al-Kandi, al-Sadr and Sheikh Zayed received 138 wounded and 70 dead bodies of al-Karrada bombing".[27] He noted that fifty bodies were burned beyond recognition, and that samples from them had been sent for DNA testing to determine their identities.[27]
Responsibility
The
Jasim al-Bahadli, a former army officer and security analyst in Baghdad, stated that the attack was an ISIL attempt to "compensate for their humiliating defeat
Reactions
Domestic
Political
The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited the scene of the attack on the following day, and was met by angry crowds shouting "thief" and "dog".[3][13] They were angry about what they perceived as the government's false promises regarding tightened security.[11] One local shop owner was quoted as stating "Thank God I managed to hit Abadi with stones to take revenge for the kids".[13] Abadi stated that he will punish the perpetrators of the bombings.[28] He also announced a public mourning that will last three days.[29]
After reporting in their most recent death toll, the Iraqi Ministry of Defence issued a statement admitting they were overwhelmed, with not enough resources, military checkpoints, and intelligence services to properly manage the security of Baghdad.[26]
On 5 July, Interior Minister
According to the Rudaw Media Network, the bombing was "politically disastrous" for the Iraqi government, which had presented the recapture of Fallujah as a step that would make Baghdad less vulnerable to such attacks, as Abadi said that the attacks originated in Fallujah. Seeing that Baghdad was still vulnerable to such attacks, the population of the city could, according to Rudaw, be less supportive of diverting manpower to liberating Mosul.[31]
Religious
Iraq's leading
Other
On social media, some Iraqis expressed anger at the
International
Abdul Kareem Khalaf, an advisor to the European Centre for Counter-terrorism and Intelligence Studies think tank, recommended that Abadi "have a meeting with the heads of national security, intelligence, the interior ministry and all sides responsible for security and ask them just one question: How can we infiltrate these groups?"
On 6 July, New Zealand's
See also
- List of Islamist terrorist attacks
- List of terrorist incidents, July–December 2016
- Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2016
- Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi Mausoleum attack
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It came a week after Iraqi security forces recaptured Fallujah from IS, leaving Mosul as the only Iraqi city under the jihadist group's control.
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External links
- Media related to July 2016 Baghdad bombings at Wikimedia Commons