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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Truck bomb destroys (Iranian?) cargo ship in Iraq's Umm Qasr port

A truck bomb destroyed a cargo ship in the port of Umm Qasr, near Basra, Iraq on Saturday.

Shipping traffic was unaffected by a truck bomb at Iraq's southern Umm Qasr commodities port on Saturday, a maritime transport official said.
"Shipping movements and unloading operations at Umm Qasr port were not disrupted by the explosion," Mahdi Askar, an official with the state-run General Company for Maritime Transport told Reuters.

Askar and a provincial official said the blast was caused by a truck bomb. Umm Qasr is near the oil-exporting southern city of Basra. It does not handle crude exports but receives grain shipments and heavy equipment used in the oil industry.
This report claims that the cargo ship was Iranian, but there's no indication of that here.




It's good that Obama declared victory and got US troops out of Iraq, isn't it? Now it's so peaceful there. And I'm sure it will be even more peaceful once it becomes a province of Iran.

What could go wrong?

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