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Saturday 16 February 2008 (09 Safar 1429)
Twin Suicide Bombings at Iraqi Mosque Kill Four
Agencies -
MOSUL, Iraq - A double attack yesterday by two suicide bombers
outside a crowded Shiite mosque in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar
killed at least four people and wounded 17, police said. Tal Afar police chief
Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Al-Juburi said security forces shot both bombers but that
the men still managed to detonate their suicide vests.
The attacks came during Friday prayers when the Sheikh Jawad
Al-Sadiq mosque was crowded with worshippers. Juburi told AFP that one suicide
bomber approached the mosque but was intercepted by guards, who shot him in the
legs as he threw a grenade and detonated his vest, injuring some guards.
"As people came running out of the mosque to see what was
happening, a second suicide bomber rushed into the crowd. The guards shot him
but he managed to detonate his vest," he said. "Because he was close to the
crowd he managed to kill four people. In all 17 people were wounded." Tal Afar
is near the Syrian border in the northern province of Nineveh, one of the
provinces where Iraqi and US officials say Al-Qaeda in Iraq has regrouped after
being chased out of Baghdad and surrounding belts.
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