Attacks target Iraq's Christians again, killing 5

[sabra]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD — Baghdad's Christians came under attack again Wednesday when a coordinated series of roadside bombs blew up in predominantly Christian neighborhoods, killing five people. The blasts came less than two weeks after insurgents besieged a church and killed 68 people in an assault that drew international condemnation.

Police said at least 11 roadside bombs went off within an hour in three predominantly Christian areas of central Baghdad. Four blasts hit houses belonging to Christians and two mortar rounds struck Christian enclaves in the southern predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Dora. Two bombs planted in deserted Christian homes in western Baghdad destroyed two houses.

It was the third attack targeting Christians since the church siege on Oct. 31. Late Tuesday, a series of bombs hit three empty houses belonging to Christians in western Baghdad but no one was hurt.

An al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility for the church attack and threatened more violence against Iraq's Christian community.

Read more: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/10/attacks-target-iraqs-christians-again-killing-5/

[east texas lib]

1. No one here seems to care much, evidently.

What do the lives of these people matter amid all the other weighty matters being fretted about on DU? Sad. And pathetic. It really doesn't matter that what the religious affiliations of the attackers and the victims are. But it sure as hell matters that a majority is persecuting and murdering a minority. Or does empathy depend on the demographic of the minority?

[daleo]

2. Congratulations, Bush

Ironically, Christians were quite safe in Saddam's Iraq.