By Theodore Shoebat

Muslims detonated a car bomb in front of the US consulate in the Iraqi city of Arbil and killed three people. As we read in one report:

A car bomb killed three people on Friday outside the US consulate in Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region that is allied with Washington in a war against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which claimed the attack.

No US personnel were hurt in the blast, according to the State Department which said a “vehicle-borne improvised explosive device” exploded right outside the entrance to the heavily fortified compound.

Kurdistan is an important partner for the US-led coalition in its campaign to “degrade and destroy” ISIL that overran large parts of Iraq last summer and threatened to reach Arbil.
A Reuters witness heard the blast, which was followed by gunfire and sent a column of black smoke high above the Ankawa district, a predominantly Christian neighbourhood packed with cafes popular with foreigners.

“It seems the consulate was the target,” Nihad Qoja, the mayor of Arbil’s city centre, told
Reuters.

The head of security for Ankawa said three people were killed and 14 wounded.

“They (ISIL) want to show they are present,” Sherzad Farmand said.
ISIL also claimed responsibility for two car bombings in the Baghdad that killed at least 27 people on Friday.

“The fighters of the Islamic State detonated two car bombs in the heart of the Iraqi capital this evening and a third in Arbil,” the group said via its news agency.

Such attacks are relatively rare in Kurdistan, which has managed to insulate itself from the worst of the violence afflicting the rest of Iraq.

The last major attack in Arbil, also claimed by Islamic State, was in November, when a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside the governor’s office, killing five.

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