ISIL foreign terrorists behind Iraq car blast
Four of ISIL’s foreign terrorists have been identified as the ones behind car-bomb attacks on the Iraqi army and volunteer forces near a major oil refinery in the northern city of Baiji, which killed at least 14 and injured over two dozen others.
The terrorists detonated four explosives-laden Toyota Land Cruiser cars on Saturday in a quadruple bombing of a local headquarters of Iraqi volunteer forces in the area of al-Hajjaj, which lies on the Tikrit-Baiji road in Salahuddin province, seven kilometers south of oil-rich Baiji.
The notorious ISIL terror group claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing, identifying the nationality of the bombers as a Briton, a German, a Kuwaiti and a Palestinian.
According to local press reports, the photo of the German bomber, identified as Abu Ibrahim al-Almani, shows a red-haired, blue-eyed man behind the wheel of his explosives-laden vehicle, smiling and pointing his index finger to the sky.
The photos released by the the Takfiri terrorists further showed the black-clad bombers each standing next to one of the four black SUVs.
According to an Iraqi army officer cited in local news reports, the vehicles used in the bombings were identical and looked like an official convoy.
However, one of the four explosives-filled vehicles was “neutralized” before it could reach its target, said an Iraqi police colonel as cited in press reports.
According to the officer, the victims of the bombings included seven army soldiers. The rest were members of the Popular Mobilization force, who reportedly play a major role in heavy clashes against the ISIL terrorists across Iraq.
The colonel added that at least 27 Iraqi forces were wounded in the bombing attack, which came amid persisting advances of Iraqi armed forces against the foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants.
The northern and western parts of the oil-rich Arab country have witnessed horrific violence ever since the ISIL terrorists began their march through Iraqi territory in June 2014. Units of army troops and volunteer fighters have joined forces and are set to liberate the rest of the areas still under ISIL’s control.
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