Iraq Violence: Baghdad Cafe Hit by Deadly Bomb Attack
This article details a bombing that took place on the 18th in Bagdad when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a popular internet café, killing 27 people that included two children and injuring dozens more. It followed car bombings that happened Monday all across the country, killing 31 and injuring 200. Although no group has stepped up to claim the bombings, they happened right before the election in Iraq. That the bombings happened on Monday also makes me wonder if they are somehow connected to the Boston Marathon, but is this only because I'm an American with an inflated sense of the immensity of tragedies in my own country compared to those in others?We hear about bombings in the Middle East so often that we barely register them as realities, but the Boston bombing allows us to imagine the horror of living in a place where you could be randomly terrorized at any given moment. 9/11, of course, brought the possibility to our attention first, but the last war on our own soil happened over 150 years ago and we are used to such attacks being isolated incidents. The marathon bombing makes one fear that such tragedies could become as common as they are in the Middle East and elsewhere.
~April Patterson
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