Female suicide bomber kills 10 in Iraq
Wed Jan 2, 2008 6:14am EST
By Peter Graff
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber wearing an
explosive vest struck a checkpoint of neighborhood
patrol volunteers in Baquba, capital of Iraq's restive
Diyala province, killing 10 people and wounding eight
on Wednesday, police said.
It was the latest in a wave of suicide bomb attacks
that has appeared to intensify in recent days and
weeks, even as overall levels of violence in Iraq have
fallen.
Two policemen and four patrol volunteers were among
the dead, police said. Among those killed was
Abdul-Rafaa al-Nidawi, whom police described as the
coordinator between U.S. forces and the volunteer
patrols in the city.
The mainly Sunni Arab neighborhood patrols, paid by
U.S. forces to oppose Sunni al Qaeda militants, have
frequently been targeted by suicide bombers in recent
months.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who is not believed
to have direct control over the Iraqi militants that
use his organization's name, threatened attacks
against the patrol members in an audio tape released
last week.
Strikes by female suicide bombers are comparatively
rare but there have been several in recent weeks in
Diyala, including one which killed 16 people on
December 7 and another which wounded seven people at a
police station in Baquba on New Year's Eve.
Overall violence in Iraq declined dramatically over
the second half of 2007. But U.S. military figures
released over the weekend show suicide bombings
increased after falling to a low in October.
The past week has seen major suicide bomb attacks most
days.
A bomber in a suicide vest killed 30 mourners at a
Baghdad funeral on New Year's Day, the deadliest
strike in the capital for months. On New Year's Eve a
suicide car bomb killed 11 people including five
children in a town north of Baghdad.
On Christmas day two separate strikes on neighborhood
patrol volunteers killed at least 33 people.
U.S. forces say they have driven al Qaeda Sunni Arab
militants out of most of the territory they once
controlled, but the militants still retain the
capability to stage so-called "spectacular" strikes
aimed at killing large numbers of people.
Al Qaeda has frequently targeted the neighborhood
patrols, which were initially set up by tribes that
turned against the Sunni Islamist group and are now
springing up throughout Sunni Arab areas with U.S.
funding and support.
(Writing by Peter Graff; editing by Ross Colvin)
© Reuters 2007. All rights reserved.
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