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| Suicide boomer kills nine in northern Iraq |
| 2009-08-30 |
| [Dawn] A suicide car bomber killed at least nine people and wounded 11 others in an attack at a police station north of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi police said. Four of those killed in the attack were police. The attack occurred at about 8:00am (0500 GMT) near the town of Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, in Salahuddin province. The bombing is the latest attack in northern Iraq to target remote communities where there are often few checkpoints and little security. Iraq is struggling to recover from a rash of violence that has raised questions about the durability of security gains, including truck bomb attacks that killed almost 100 people near government ministries on August 19. There also has been a series of attacks in areas of northern Iraq where tension is high between majority Arabs, ethnic Kurds and other minorities. Much of the violence has taken place in Nineveh province, near Shirqat. The government, looking towards a general election in January, is striving to show Iraqis that it is on top of the security situation as American troops prepare to withdraw gradually by the end of 2011. |
| Posted by:Fred |