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A suicide car bomber blew himself up in front of a Baghdad police academy on Sunday, killing 15 people and wounding 21 others in the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in weeks, security officials said.
At least eight other people were killed in attacks elsewhere in Iraq.
The suicide bomber "blew himself up at the entrance of the police academy on Palestine Street," an interior ministry official said, putting the toll at 15 dead and 21 wounded.
A police colonel confirmed the toll. The ministry official told AFP the assailant was at the wheel of a car rigged with explosives and that most of the victims were students applying to join the police force. One police officer who was hit in the leg by shrapnel from the blast told AFP at the Ibn al-Nafis hospital that the explosion occurred near the back entrance of the academy when he and others were leaving. "We finished our duty and we were walking outside, and suddenly we felt a strong explosion," said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
He said he saw damaged civilian and police vehicles at the scene.
Security forces armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles were deployed on the street where the bombing occurred, preventing most cars from entering, as a truck sprayed water on the site.
Tow-trucks dragged the burned-out remains of two cars down the street and off through traffic, leaving behind another damaged car that was missing most of its windscreen. Journalists were not permitted near the bomb site.
It was the in Iraq since January 27, when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car outside a hospital in Baghdad, killing 31 people. Also on Sunday, gun and bomb attacks in other parts of the country killed eight people -- four police informants, two policeman and two anti-Qaeda militiamen -- and wounded four others, security officials said. "A group of suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen attacked a house in the centre of Baquba around 7:30 am (0430 GMT)," said a police major in Baquba, 60 kilometres (37.5 miles) north of the capital. "The attackers killed three women and one man from one family inside the house," the major said, adding that the victims were all police informants.
In Ramadi, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad, police First Lieutenant Anas Mohammed al-Fahdawi was killed by a sticky bomb, police Major Qassem Mohammed said. Gunmen in a civilian car also targeted a checkpoint manned by police and anti-Qaeda Sahwa (Awakening) militia members in Abu Khamis north of Baquba, killing a policeman and two Sahwa members, a police lieutenant colonel said. Two Sahwa members were wounded in the attack, he added. Two more Sahwa members were wounded by a roadside bomb near Samarra, 110 kilometres (70 miles) north of Baghdad, a lieutenant colonel in the Samarra police said.
The Sahwa are made up of Sunni tribesmen who sided with the US military against Al-Qaeda from late 2006, helping to turn the tide of the insurgency. Police also found the burned body of the criminal court judge Abdelrizak al-Qubaisi in his house in Al-Qaim, 340 kilometres (210 miles) west of Baghdad, Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Akili of Al-Qaim police said. And the interior ministry said on its website that the bodies of a man and a woman who had been shot in the head were found in Sadr City in north Baghdad. It was unclear when they were killed. Violence in Iraq is down from its peak in 2006 and 2007,
but attacks remain common, and 151 people were killed in violence in January.
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Subscribe to VesInteL World News by EmailA police colonel confirmed the toll. The ministry official told AFP the assailant was at the wheel of a car rigged with explosives and that most of the victims were students applying to join the police force. One police officer who was hit in the leg by shrapnel from the blast told AFP at the Ibn al-Nafis hospital that the explosion occurred near the back entrance of the academy when he and others were leaving. "We finished our duty and we were walking outside, and suddenly we felt a strong explosion," said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
It was the in Iraq since January 27, when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car outside a hospital in Baghdad, killing 31 people. Also on Sunday, gun and bomb attacks in other parts of the country killed eight people -- four police informants, two policeman and two anti-Qaeda militiamen -- and wounded four others, security officials said. "A group of suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen attacked a house in the centre of Baquba around 7:30 am (0430 GMT)," said a police major in Baquba, 60 kilometres (37.5 miles) north of the capital. "The attackers killed three women and one man from one family inside the house," the major said, adding that the victims were all police informants.
In Ramadi, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad, police First Lieutenant Anas Mohammed al-Fahdawi was killed by a sticky bomb, police Major Qassem Mohammed said. Gunmen in a civilian car also targeted a checkpoint manned by police and anti-Qaeda Sahwa (Awakening) militia members in Abu Khamis north of Baquba, killing a policeman and two Sahwa members, a police lieutenant colonel said. Two Sahwa members were wounded in the attack, he added. Two more Sahwa members were wounded by a roadside bomb near Samarra, 110 kilometres (70 miles) north of Baghdad, a lieutenant colonel in the Samarra police said.
The Sahwa are made up of Sunni tribesmen who sided with the US military against Al-Qaeda from late 2006, helping to turn the tide of the insurgency. Police also found the burned body of the criminal court judge Abdelrizak al-Qubaisi in his house in Al-Qaim, 340 kilometres (210 miles) west of Baghdad, Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Akili of Al-Qaim police said. And the interior ministry said on its website that the bodies of a man and a woman who had been shot in the head were found in Sadr City in north Baghdad. It was unclear when they were killed. Violence in Iraq is down from its peak in 2006 and 2007,
but attacks remain common, and 151 people were killed in violence in January.
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What your mainstream media never tell you: Marvel at the al-Jazeera film crew whipping the crowd to hysteria. This is what most UK/american mainstream media do ; get the crowds TO ACT for the cameras. Ever noticed the STAGED gun shots or in-the-lens chanting? It's all fake, staged propaganda for the liars at Sky/ITN/BBC?CNN/Fox. اسامہ بن لادن ہلاکओसामा बिन लादेन को मार डाला قتل أسامة بن لادن Oussama Ben Laden tué Osama Bin Laden getötet Usama bin Ladin dödas DURBAN, South Africa -- “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish a world government paid for by the West on the pretext of dealing with the non-problem of “global warming” are now well in hand. As usual, the mainstream media have simply not reported what is in the draft text which the 194 states parties to the UN framework convention on climate change are being asked to approve. Behind the scenes, throughout the year since Cancun, the now-permanent bureaucrats who have made highly-profitable careers out of what they lovingly call “the process” have been beavering away at what is now a 138-page document. Its catchy title is "Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action Under the Convention -- Update of the amalgamation of draft texts in preparation of [one imagines they mean 'for'] a comprehensive and balanced outcome to be presented to the Conference of the Parties for adoption at its seventeenth session: note by the Chair.” In plain English, these are the conclusions the bureaucracy wants. The contents of this document, turgidly drafted with all the UN's skill at what the former head of its documentation center used to call “transparent impenetrability”, are not just off the wall – they are lunatic.
