Suicide bomb attack kills 12 in Iraq

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber drove a truck rigged with explosives into a checkpoint manned by members of a U.S.-backed security volunteer group in a town north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 12 people, police and a member of the volunteer group said.

Another three people were missing following the explosion in the town of Mishada, 20 miles north of the capital, on part of the main highway linking Baghdad to northern Iraq, according to a police officer and Adil al-Mishhadani, a member of the volunteer group.

The groups, known as Awakening Councils and dubbed Concerned Local Citizens by the U.S. military, have been credited with helping reduce violence in the country. The groups are made up of mainly Sunni tribal fighters who turned against al-Qaida in Iraq earlier this year and are now paid by the U.S. military to help provide security.

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In a separate attack, a female suicide bomber detonated herself near a police patrol, wounding five policemen and four civilians in the town of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, said police Brigadier Khudeir al-Tamimi.



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[maxsolomon]

1. what is there left to say about these quotidian horrors?

that sunni islamist attacks on sunni nationalists is positive development?

no wonder the war has disappeared from the american mass consciousness since "the surge worked".

[Franc_Lee]

2. Iraq attacks have decreased 60% since June, this is an odd attack? or wtf ever!!!

[Barrett808]

3. k & r

[humbled_opinion]

4. Surge worked alert...

NOT...:eyes:

[Rockerdem]

5. Keeping Iraq War in consciousness bump -nt