FRIDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2007
12:01 MECCA TIME, 9:01 GMT
Suicide bomber targets Iraqi group
Awakening groups have sprung up across Iraq [EPA]
At least 16 people have been killed in Iraq after a
female suicide bomber attacked an armed group working
with US and Iraqi forces in the town of Muqdadiya,
north of Baghdad.
Another 27 people were wounded in Friday's blast,
which targeted an the office of the group, who had
recently begun working with security forces against
al-Qaeda fighters.
"The explosion was caused when a female suicide bomber
detonated her vest in the office of the local
Awakening group," said Lieutenant Colonel Najim
al-Soumaidaie, an Iraqi police official.
Awakening groups are mainly comprised of Iraqis who
have accepted US money to fight al-Qaeda.
About 50,000 people, including former Sunni fighters,
have reportedly signed up to the units.
They are paid about $10 a day by the US military to
man checkpoints in their own communities.
On Thursday, the leaders of four Awakening units were
killed by in a drive-by shooting in the town of Rabia
in northwest Iraq near the Syrian border, police said.
Crowded area
Witnesses in Muqdadiya said a woman walked up to the
building, in a street full of shops, and began asking
questions, the Reuters news agency reported.
She detonated the vest she was wearing when people who
were out shopping before Friday prayers began
gathering around her.
"We saw several bodies. It is Friday and the area was
crowded," Ammar Fadhel said.
A similar attack on November 27 by a female suicide
bomber wounded seven US soldiers and five Iraqi
civilians in Baquba which, like Muqdadiya, is in
Diyala province.
US commanders have said Diyala is one of the most
dangerous areas of Iraq after al-Qaeda fighters were
driven out of the western province of Anbar and other
areas of Iraq.
Internet warning
On Tuesday, the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked group
warned in an Internet audio message of renewed
attacks in Iraq and announced the formation of a new
brigade.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of
Iraq group, said a new brigade called Al-Siddiq
Brigades had been formed to fight every "apostate and
traitor," the SITE intelligence group said.
Baghdadi warned of a bombing campaign that will
continue until January 2008.
"This attack involves bombings aimed at the
'apostates' and members of the Awakening Councils,"
it added.
The term apostates is usually used to refer to Iraqi
security forces.
The US military dismisses Baghdadi as a "fictional
character", saying he that he has been invented by
supporters of al-Qaeda on the internet.
Source: Agencies
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