pbtt wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Four Iraqi judges were the targets of separate bombing attacks Monday in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
A judge and his wife and daughter sustained injuries in one of the attacks, the official said.
The other three jurists escaped unharmed, although a bodyguard of one of the judges was wounded.
An Iraqi security source said he believes Shiite militants perpetrated the attacks in an attempt to pressure the judges to overturn recent death penalties imposed against leaders of the Mehdi Army, the militia loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Judge Ghanim Abdullah al-Shummari was targeted at his home Monday morning in the northeastern area of al-Banook , the security official said. The judge is on the civic court in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood, a stronghold of the Mehdi Army.
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