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Suicide Bomber on Bike Kills 29 Iraqi Policemen


MIL/IR/NYT, Oct 30, 2007

Baghdad: October 30, 2007 – There is no dearth of people who are prepared to offer their life as a Suicide Human Bomb, simply there should be some target cultivated in their mind, wrong or right. A suicide bomber on a bicycle set off his bicycle and killed 29 police trainees.

A suicide bomber killed seven people north of Baghdad and as per official confirmation, a Brigadier General was also wounded by a roadside bomb in Northern Baghdad. (IR Summary).

Read NYT Article :

 According to the Associated Press, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Dorko, the highest-ranking American officer to be hurt since the invasion in March 2003, was evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. His wounds were not life-threatening, The A.P. said.

Taken together, the attacks highlighted the continuing instability in the vicinity of Iraq’s capital and were a reminder of how easily security in the city could disintegrate.

The blast in Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province, also wounded 19 people, including 7 policemen who were in critical condition and a woman and her baby, provincial authorities said. Most of the police officers killed and wounded were members of the recently formed emergency police brigade in Diyala.

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Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/world/middleeast/30iraq.html?th&emc=th


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