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Violence surges in Iraq
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
International Herald Tribune - Dec 7, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/07/africa/iraq.php
Violence surges in Iraq as 25 are killed in 2 attacks in Diyala
By Cara Buckley
Baghdad: Twenty-five people were killed Friday in the tumultuous Iraqi
province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, in two separate attacks.
Fifteen people were killed and 20 wounded when a suicide attacker
detonated a bomb in the town of Muqdadiya near the headquarters of a
local committee of former insurgents working with U.S. forces. It was
not clear whether the bomber was a man or a woman because two heads
were found alongside shredded bodies near the bombing site, according
to a police official from the town.
A separate car bomb attack on a checkpoint in the restive city of Baquba
killed seven Iraqi soldiers and three volunteers who had been working
with the U.S. forces. Baquba was the scene of a suicide car bomb attack
earlier this week that detonated at the entrance to a bus station and
killed five people.
Diyala is ethnically mixed and continues to be wracked by violence even
as attack rates throughout Iraq have dipped. The violence has been
exacerbated as Sunni insurgents have moved to areas north of Baghdad
after the American military increased troop levels in the Iraqi capital
earlier this year as part of the so-called surge.
The local committee that was attacked Friday in Muqdadiya was comprised
of former Sunni insurgents who had allied themselves with the
Americans. Their headquarters is in a bustling neighborhood, and the
nearby streets were especially crowded because Fridays are holidays
here.
Do***ents retrieved during the raid indicated that Douri had recently
been there, the police said. The do***ents detailed ties with Al Qaeda
in Mesopotamia, a predominantly Iraqi group that American intelligence
says has foreign leader****p; they also laid out Iraqi police targets
and included the blueprints of Iraqi military bases and prisons, the
police said.
Weaponry, including mortar launchers, was also found. Douri sits at the
top of the Iraqi government's "most wanted" list, and is accused by
Wa****ngton of heading and financing terrorist operations here.
Mudhafer al-Husaini contributed re****ting.
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