| Today's dispatch from the depths of depravity... |
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 17, nine of them coppers, officials said.
"A suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest at the entrance to a cop shoppe, killing two civilians and wounding 17 people, including nine coppers in Tarmiyah," a town north of Storied Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. A defence ministry official confirmed the report.
"The suicide bomber came up to the entrance in a wheelchair," said Colonel Tawfiq Ahmed al-Jenabi, chief of the town's police, who added he did not know if the attacker was genuinely handicapped.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
two people were maimed by an improvised bomb that went
kaboom!next to a convoy transporting Mohammed Ahmed al-Obaidi, mayor of the town of Al-Riyadh in the restive northern province of Kirkuk.
Obaidi, who beat feet unhurt and spoke to AFP after the attack, lost a foot in a similar bombing in June last year.
Twenty-four people were killed on Thursday in three separate attacks in Storied Baghdad, including 21 in a triple bombing at a crowded market, and an American contractor working for USAID whose convoy was hit by an improvised bomb.