Posted on 08/26/2008 9:50:12 AM PDT by forkinsocket
BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of Iraqi police recruits, killing 28 people and wounding 45, police said.
It was the biggest attack for weeks in Iraq, where which has been enjoying some of its lowest levels of violence in four years. It came amid Iraqi efforts to conclude a security deal with the United States that would allow American forces to leave Iraq by the end of 2011.
A police source said the bomber, wearing an explosive vest, struck a large crowd lining up to apply to join the police in the town of Jalawla, in Iraq's volatile Diyala Province, north of Baghdad.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. But recruitment centres have been frequent targets by militants in the past, especially Sunni Arab Al-Qaeda, which views recruits as collaborators with what it calls a U.S.-led occupation.
The ethnically and religiously mixed Diyala Province has emerged as the most violent part of Iraq, even as the rest of the country has become more stable over the past year.
No Final Deal
Iraq as a whole has become much less dangerous over the past year but militants have shown they are still capable of carrying out devastating, large-scale bomb attacks.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on August 25 that the United States and Iraq have agreed that all U.S. troops will leave by the end of 2011, but Washington said no final deal had been reached.
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shure the troops will be out 2011. what a joke. the day the troops leave iraq will go up in flames.
Oh, yeah Maliki... Your country is ready for a mandated U.S. Troop withdrawl... Way to put your foot down!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess NOT having these recruits line-up in mass escapes
these people.
I guess NOT having these recruits line-up in mass escapes
these people.
You’d think by now they’d have super security for police recruit staions.
omg!!!...lol
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