Burn a single Koran and 20 UN workers get burned to death in Afghanistan. But put a bomb in one in Iraq and you can hear jaws crack from yawning.
H/T Magic Martin
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
That is a Quranic bomb! Quite literally! What’s next, what’s next, what’s next…
The Iraqi’s did well to discover and diffuse this device without casualties. May be hope for Iraq after all?
Violence in Iraq goes up despite US pull out, as freed prisoners rejoin militias
Violence in Iraq has increased since the US troop withdrawal, as thousands of ex-prisoners held by American forces rejoin insurgent groups such as Al Qaeda.
In a blow to hopes that the pull-out would remove the key catalyst for bloodshed, figures show that death rates have actually gone up since the last American soldier left Iraqi soil in December 2011.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/9934656/Violence-in-Iraq-goes-up-despite-US-pull-out-as-freed-prisoners-rejoin-militias.html