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Original Post Date: 2008-11-11 Time: 06:00:10 Posted By: Jan
By Peter Graff
Baghdad – Two car bombs exploded in the centre of the capital on Monday and a suicide bomber blew himself up among police and civilians who rushed to help the wounded, a triple strike that killed 28 people and wounded 68.
In another attack, in Baquba, capital of volatile northern Diyala province, a teenage girl in a suicide bomb vest blew herself up at a checkpoint of US-backed security patrolmen, killing four people and wounding 18. Police said the bomber was a girl of 13.
The triple attack in Baghdad, one of the bloodiest incidents in Iraq for months, took place in the Kasra neighbourhood on the bank of the Tigris River in an area of tea shops and restaurants near a fine arts institute. Male and female students, many of whom were having breakfast, were among the dead and wounded, as were Iraqi soldiers and police who had rushed to the scene.
Such co-ordinated strikes have become rare but steady reminders of the capacity of militants to unleash mayhem in Iraq, even though they no longer control whole swathes of towns and villages and violence overall has fallen sharply.
The attack by a female suicide bomber in Baquba is part of a trend that has increased this year. US forces say “al-Qaeda militants” are increasingly recruiting female bombers, often teenage girls, to thwart security checks. Many of the female bombers have lost male relatives and are seen as psychologically vulnerable to recruitment for suicide missions.
Al-Qaeda and like-minded groups have been driven out of many parts of Iraq after local Sunni Arab tribesmen turned against them, but they are making a stand in northern areas such as the rural groves near Baquba. They often target the mainly Sunni US-backed security patrols, whom they call collaborators.
Meanwhile, Sunni militias, which have played a key role in driving al-Qaeda fighters from Baghdad, began receiving pay cheques yesterday from a Shia-led government that has long eyed them with suspicion. Up to 60 stations opened in the Iraqi capital to pay some 54 000 members of the US-allied so-called Awakening Councils, which used to receive their salaries from the US military.