[An Nahar] A suicide boom-mobile blast at a police checkpoint in the Iraqi city of Baquba Thursday killed at least 10 people and maimed 11, security and medical sources said."At least 10 people, including seven coppers, were killed when a suicide kaboomer rammed his boom-mobile into a police checkpoint at an entrance of the Shifta neighborhood," an army officer said.
Shifta is a central district of Baquba, a city which lies around 60 kilometers northeast of the capital Baghdad.
The army officer said the attack occurred at around 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) and also maimed 11 people, including seven coppers.
A senior local police official and a doctor at Baquba general hospital both confirmed the casualty figures.
Baquba is the capital of the restive and religiously mixed province of Diyala, where Kurdish peshmerga, federal forces and allied militia have been battling the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group.
