Bombing In Baghdad

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Chase McCourt
Bombing in Baghdad on August 13th Media Report http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/baghdad-truck-bomb.html

The New York Times wrote an article about the bombing titled “Bomb Claimed by ISIS Kills Dozens in Baghdad”. They describe the event-taking place in a Shiite community near a market. The event killed 60 people and wounded 100 more. They talk about how bombings have been occurring in Baghdad regularly for years now. This is what most Americans perceive of the Middle East as a whole. They imagine that the whole area is full of angry Muslims committing terrible acts like the one being described. They include a first hand account of someone experiencing what the aftermath of the devastation looked like describing a bloody horrible scene. Americans are picturing this in their head and thinking how terrible it must be to live in Baghdad and encounter this regularly. They go on to describe details about ISIS and them being Sunni Muslims. People here are probably thinking that all Sunnis are evil and that they need to be eliminated.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/scores-dead-truck-bomb-rips-baghdad-market-iraq-150813045718318.html
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After reading the NY Times article they describe the numbers to be different they claim 67 people died and 200 were wounded. They have a quote from someone saying "We hold the government responsible, fully responsible". This is definitely not something being read in the NY Times article. The local feels that the government needs to be protecting the capital city by putting in checkpoints to check vehicles for bombs. It talks about how the government is unstable and the US is helping to train soldiers to battle with ISIS. This story definitely is not as dramatized as the NY Times

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