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Suicide bomber kills 13 near Baquba: Iraq police
[Al Ahram] A jacket wallah detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle on Thursday near car dealerships in Baladruz, close to the Iraqi city of Baquba, killing 13 people, police and a doctor said. The blast in Baladruz, north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , also maimed 25 people, the sources said. The bombing comes as security forces and rustics battled Al-Qaeda-linked hard boyz who took control of parts of two cities in Anbar province, west of the capital. Violence in Iraq has reached a level not seen since 2008, when the country was just emerging from a brutal period of sectarian killings. Experts say widespread discontent among Iraq's Sunni Arab minority, who say they are marginalised by the Shiite-lead government and unfairly targeted by security forces, has fuelled the increase in violence. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-03 |
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