Suicide bomber kills six in Iraq checkpoint attack

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Suicide bomber kills six in Iraq checkpoint attack
Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:03am EDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed six
members of an anti-al Qaeda tribal police unit when
he struck their checkpoint near Baghdad on Monday,
police said.

Police said several others were wounded in the attack
near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of the Iraqi capital.

It was the latest attack on members of the Salahuddin
Awakenings Council, an alliance of tribes in the Sunni
Arab province of Salahuddin opposed to al Qaeda's
religious extremism and its indiscriminate killing of
civilians.

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