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Iraq
Double-blast suicide bomber 'kills eight' in Iraq
2010-03-15
A double-blast suicide bomber targeting a military checkpoint and labourers killed eight people on Monday in the former Sunni rebel bastion of Fallujah, Iraqi police and medics said.

Twenty-eight other civilians were wounded in the blasts, which occurred within minutes of each other at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT) in the centre of Fallujah, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad, officials said.

Captain Bashar Mohammed, a police station chief in Fallujah, said the bomber parked his explosives-packed vehicle near a military checkpoint in the centre of the city.

The assailant then walked into a group of labourers and detonated his explosives vest. The car bomb exploded shortly afterwards, again without causing any military casualties.
Posted by:ed

#1  "...in the former Sunni rebel bastion of Fallujah."
Sunni's were the sect in power under Saddam, so what field (other than left) does this come from.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2010-03-15 09:20  

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