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Suicide bomber kills 15 in Baghdad Sunni bastion
0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008
BAGHDAD (AFP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up near a mosque in a Sunni Arab bastion of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 30, security officials told AFP.
The bomber detonated his explosives vest at a checkpoint near the revered Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque in northern Baghdad's Adhamiyah district, the officials and an AFP correspondent at the site said.
A security official with the interior ministry said the bomber was riding a bicycle when he detonated his vest, while witnesses told the AFP correspondent that he was dressed as a woman.
The checkpoint was manned by local Sunni Arabs who were members of a group fighting Al-Qaeda militants, the correspondent said.
Those killed included Faruq al-Obeidi, a local leader of the...
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