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Iraqi Suicide Bomber Kills 28
RFE/RL ^ | August 26, 2008 | Staff

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: deathtoll; diyala; iraq; iraqipolice; islam; mohammedanism; suicidebomber
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1 posted on 08/26/2008 9:50:12 AM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: forkinsocket

shure the troops will be out 2011. what a joke. the day the troops leave iraq will go up in flames.


2 posted on 08/26/2008 9:54:00 AM PDT by austrian
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To: austrian

Oh, yeah Maliki... Your country is ready for a mandated U.S. Troop withdrawl... Way to put your foot down!!!!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 08/26/2008 9:55:50 AM PDT by jmpmstr4u2 (43 muscles to frown, 7 to smile and 4 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and tired of smiling.)
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To: jmpmstr4u2

I guess NOT having these recruits line-up in mass escapes
these people.


4 posted on 08/26/2008 10:05:58 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: jmpmstr4u2

I guess NOT having these recruits line-up in mass escapes
these people.


5 posted on 08/26/2008 10:05:59 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: forkinsocket

You’d think by now they’d have super security for police recruit staions.


6 posted on 08/26/2008 10:09:45 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (est deus in nobis)
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To: Dr. Ursus

omg!!!...lol


7 posted on 08/26/2008 10:10:40 AM PDT by jmpmstr4u2 (43 muscles to frown, 7 to smile and 4 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and tired of smiling.)
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