Female bomber strikes Iraqi town A female suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives has killed 16 people in a town near Baghdad. At least 20 people were wounded in the blast at 0930 local time (0630 GMT) in Muqdadiya, which is 90km (55 miles) north-east of Iraq's capital.
The bomber struck at the office of a local Sunni Arab anti-al-Qaeda militia, killing 10 members of the group. Police say she was a local woman who was once a member of executed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. She was targeting one of the so-called Awakening Councils, militias that have backed US forces and the Iraqi government in their efforts to reclaim Iraqi provinces from al-Qaeda. Fragile security A female suicide bomber previously struck at Muqdadiya in April this year, walking into a crowd at a police recruitment centre and killing more than a dozen people. The BBC's Crispin Thorold in Baghdad says Diyala has been the focus of some of the fiercest clashes in Iraq in recent months. Insurgents displaced from their former strongholds in Anbar province and parts of Baghdad are now thought to be in Diyala, says our correspondent. Recent months have seen a sharp and sustained drop in all forms of violence in most parts of Iraq, analysts say. The US troop surge of 30,000 extra troops in and around Baghdad, which started in February, has been credited with this. But senior US commanders in Iraq have warned recent gains could be fragile. Detentions Also on Friday, the US military in Iraq said 55 suspected militants have been detained in two raids targeting the al-Qaeda in Iraq network north of Baghdad. It said 47 people were held in a raid by Iraqi forces on the village of al-Aswad on Thursday. Two bombs were found during a search of the village. A further eight suspects were detained by US and Iraqi forces near Balad. The raid targeted an alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq cell leader, who was killed in the operation. In Baghdad, US troops have detained nine people suspected of links with al-Qaeda in Iraq. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/7132111.stm Published: 2007/12/07 11:55:43 GMT © BBC MMVII --------------- Jusfiq Hadjar gelar Sutan Maradjo Lelo Allah yang disembah orang Islam tipikal dan yang digambarkan oleh al-Mushaf itu dungu, buas, kejam, keji, ganas, zalim lagi biadab hanyalah Allah fiktif. ___________________________________________________________ Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
