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| Bomb in Iraq Kills Militiaman, Wife and 3 Children |
| 2010-12-25 |
| [Asharq al-Aswat] Iraqi officials say a Shiite militia leader, his wife and three children have been killed in a bombing targeting their home south of Storied Baghdad. Babil province police front man Maj. Muthana Khalid says the kaboom early Friday morning leveled the house in Haswa, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of the capital. Four people were also maimed in the blast. A hospital official confirmed the casualties. A local policeman, Abdul-Salam al-Maamouri, identified the dead man as a Mahdi Army leader. The Mahdi militia forces are loyal to radical holy man Moqtada Tateral-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010... . They often terrorized Sunni neighborhoods during the height of Iraq's sectarian fighting in 2006 and 2007, and the militia's fighters have been targets of retribution. |
| Posted by:Fred |