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Original Post Date: 2007-02-28 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Dean Yates
Baghdad – A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 40 people in a Baghdad college on Sunday, a day after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki expressed optimism about a United States-backed security crackdown in the capital.
In a blow for Maliki, anti-American Shi’a cleric Moqtada al-Sadr reversed his previous support for the offensive, saying it would not work because US forces were involved.
“There is no benefit in this security plan because it is controlled by the occupiers,” a statement from Sadr said.
| ‘May God curse the terrorists’ |
Until now, Sadr has been broadly supportive of the plan, seen as a last ditch attempt to halt all-out civil war in Iraq.
Guards stopped the bomber in the lobby of the Baghdad Economy and Administration College, attended by Shi’a Muslim and Sunni Arab students, but the man managed to blow himself up.
Police put the death toll at 40, with 35 people wounded. Most of the victims were students, witnesses said.
“May God curse the terrorists,” some students shouted after the attack. Others sat on the ground outside weeping.
A string of car bombings and rocket salvos also hit Baghdad on Sunday as US and Iraqi security forces stepped up efforts to drive Sunni insurgents out of the capital and stamp out Sunni-Shi’a sectarian violence.
Washington has accused Shi’a Iran of fuelling violence in Iraq and says sophisticated Iranian-made weapons have been increasingly used by Iraqi militias to kill US troops.
But Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told CNN Iranians had stopped training and providing weapons to Iraqi Shi’a militants to give the security plan a chance to work.
“There is no doubt in my mind that recently in the last few weeks they have changed their position and stopped a lot of their tactics and interference in Iraq’s internal affairs,” Rubaie said in an interview. It was unclear if he was referring to Iran’s government or other Iranians.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani meanwhile has fallen ill and is travelling to neighbouring Jordan for tests, his office said.
“He had a drop in blood pressure. Doctors said he needs further tests,” said Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, a Kurd very close to Talabani, a former Kurdish guerrilla leader.
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