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| Iraq |
| Suicide car bomb kills 15, wounds 20 in Iraq |
| 2008-11-17 |
| A suicide car bomber killed 15 people, including 7 policemen, and wounded 20 others in Iraq's volatile northern Diyala province on Sunday, police said. The police told Reuters the bomber had targeted a police checkpoint in the town of Jalawla. Police and police recruits are a favourite target of insurgent groups such as Al Qaeda, who view them as collaborators with the United States military. Also, three people were killed, including two members of a pro-government Sunni militia, when a homemade bomb exploded near a checkpost in Baghdad, according to police. Another seven people were wounded in the attack which came as Iraq's cabinet met to vote on a wide-ranging military agreement with the US that includes a timetable for all US forces to withdraw by the end of 2011. |
| Posted by:Fred |