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Woman suicide bomber kills nine outside Iraq court
(AFP)
8 October 2008
Print E-mail BAQUBA, Iraq - A woman bomber
blew herself up outside a courthouse north of the Iraqi capital,
killing nine people and wounding 21 in the worst Al-Qaeda-style suicide
bombing by a female in three weeks.
Two
Iraqi army majors were among five soldiers killed while a policeman
also died in the attack in the heart of Baquba, the capital of the
restive province of Diyala, a security official said.
The
director of the main regional hospital, Ahmed Fuad, said a total of 21
people were being treated for injuries, including a woman and a child,
and that nine people were killed.
The attack occurred in front of the city courthouse, some 60 kilometres (37
miles) north of Baghdad.
Lawyer
Mohammed Timimi said a woman dressed in traditional Arabic dress that
covered her from head to toe, carried out the attack.
"I
was going out to get photocopies. I saw a woman dressed in an abaya. As
I stepped out she blew herself up," Timimi said. "There was a police
car and soldiers in the compound at the time."
Wednesday's
attack was the worst suicide bombing in three weeks in Diyala. On
September 15, a woman blew herself up in a crowd of people during a
feast, killing 22 people and wounding 34.
Diyala
is one of the most dangerous places in Iraq. Insurgent groups and
Al-Qaeda have continued launching attacks there despite a massive
crackdown by US and Iraqi forces.
A number of attacks in Diyala, especially suicide bombings, have been carried
out by women.
According
to Iraqi security officials, more than 30 women have blown themselves
up in Iraq this year compared to only eight last year.
Wednesday's
bombing came a day after Iraqi forces arrested a woman suspected of
heading up the recruitment of female suicide bombers in Baquba.
Defence
ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said police had caught the
38-year-old woman dubbed "Mother Fatima" in Hommadi village, east of
Baquba, after a tip-off on Tuesday.
The woman, Ibitisma Odwan, was responsible for training girl suicide bombers,
Askari said.
She
had been directly involved in the training of a 15-year-old girl who
was allegedly tricked by her husband and two women into wearing an
explosives belt and was arrested in late August at a Baquba market
before staging an attack.
At
least 35 people were killed in Diyala in an ambush of a police convoy
late last month. Diyala has been bucking the trend seen elsewhere in
Iraq, where bloody violence is at a four-year low.
The
civilian toll in Iraq is disputed, but the conservative independent
Iraqbodycount.org website placed fatalities since the US invasion in
2003 at between 88,254 and 96,341.
Some estimates place civilian deaths in the past five years at more than
200,000.
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