Attacks of Qahtaniya of 2007
The Attentats of Qahtaniya of 2007 took place with 20:00, local time on August 14th, 2007, when four simultaneous attack-suicides took place in the cities Iraq iennes of Qahtaniya and Jazeera (Siba Sheikh Khidir), loan of Mosul. The growing red Iraqi estimates the numbers of victims at 572 died and 1.562 wounded what makes to this attack more the meurtier of the Guerre in Iraq on this date. The attacks aimed at a Kurdish religious minority , the Yazidi S.
Tensions and history
No group asserted the attack but there had been tensions the previous months the attack between of Yazidis and the Sunnites. Before the attack, certain Yazidis received threatening letters the informant " infidèles" and " anti-islamiques" by preventing them that an attack was imminent.The attack makes following a series of incidents starting with lapidation at dead on April 7th, 2007 of Of' has Khalil Aswad, a Yazidi teenager who would have converted with Islam to marry a Moslem. Two weeks, after a video showing its lapidation appeared on Internet, of insurgent the sunnites stopped a bus and massacred 23 men, selected later because they were Yazidis.
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