Was ISIS Behind Yemen Bombings That Killed Over 100?

Posted by | March 20, 2015 20:00 | Filed under: Top Stories War & Peace

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There is good reason to be skeptical of the claim. But the fact that ISIS is Sunni-aligned and the suicide bombers targeted Shi’ite mosques cannot be ignored.

The Sunni terror group ISIS purportedly claimed it committed Friday’s bombings that killed scores of people at two mosques frequented by Shiite rebels in Yemen’s capital — an attack that would mark ISIS’s first large-scale attack in the Arabian Peninsula country.

At least 137 people were killed and 357 were injured when suicide bombers — pretending to be disabled and hiding explosives under casts — attacked the mosques in Sanaa, according to Yemen’s state-run Saba news agency.

Video distributed by Reuters showed people removing bodies from one of the mosques, where a carpeted floor was littered with debris.

If ISIS committed the attack, it would not only be a new challenge to the minority Houthis who took control of Sanaa weeks ago, but also a challenge to ISIS’s rival, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Sunni extremists more associated with Yemen.

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6 responses to Was ISIS Behind Yemen Bombings That Killed Over 100?

  1. Jake March 20th, 2015 at 20:15

    I guess only one man really knows the answer to this – the man who was there when it all happened. The one eye-witness who was there, risking his own life, the intrepid fearless, selfless reporter. That man – Bill O’Reilly.

    • jybarz March 20th, 2015 at 23:59

      It really amazes me why Pinhead Oh’Really is still on air and unscathed while others have been falling down stat like dominoes for much lesser or similar dishonest journalism. I guess Fox News thinks of it as what’s the difference, Fox lies 24/7 for years and still receive high ratings… imagine about half of US (so they claim, ignoring gerrymander and voter suppression) are conservatives, and majority of them don’t know they are being fed sh!t 24/7 by Fox.

  2. trees March 20th, 2015 at 20:22

    Don’t be silly, everyone knows that the Bush administration is responsible.

  3. jybarz March 21st, 2015 at 00:41

    I hope I won’t sound ignorant for saying this, but isn’t it clear enough that the wars/bloodsheds that have been going on in the Middle East are primarily between the militant breeds of Muslims from different sects rather than between Muslims and Americans? Of course, Americans are disliked, or even hated, there by some if not most.

    I am in awe of President Obama’s thoughtful, intelligent assessment and decision in not sending American boots on the ground to avoid to be continually seen as Americans vs Muslims. His decision to create a coalition of Muslim countries to be very much involved, I think is paying off, as whatever is happening now over there, the reality can be seen as this a fight between Muslims (good vs bad and/or bad vs bad) rather than Americans against them.

  4. fahvel March 21st, 2015 at 05:23

    is there a body count or a good video of the extremely accurate drone kills in that part of the world?

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