| Global update |
Bombing during Kurdish
official's funeral kills 25
BY ANTONIO CASTANEDA
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A car bomb
obliterated a tent packed with
mourners at the funeral of a Kurdish
official in northern Iraq on Sunday,
killing 25 people and wounding more
than 50 in the deadliest attack since
insurgents started bearing down on
Iraq’s newly named government late
last week.
The blast capped four exceedingly
violent days in which at least 116
people, including 11 Americans, were
killed in a storm of bombings and
ambushes blamed on Iraqi insur
gents, believed largely populated by
members of the disaffected Sunni
Arab minority.
The Sunnis were dominant for
decades under Saddam Hussein but
were mainly shut out of the new gov
ernment announced Thursday. The
skyrocketing violence since then is
viewed by some as a response to po
litical developments that the United
States and the Shiite-dominated pow
er structure had hoped would tamp
down the bloodshed.
Despite the unrelenting violence,
Iraq’s national security adviser said
Sunday the fledgling government
was making progress against
the insurgents.
“There is no shadow of doubt in
my mind that by the end of the year,
we would have achieved a lot,”
Mouwafak al-Rubaie said in an inter
view with CNN’s “Late Edition.”
“Probably the back of the insurgency
has already been broken.”
Iraqi militants also released a video
purporting to show Iraq’s latest for
eign hostage — an Australian mar
ried to an American and living in the
San Francisco area. Douglas Wood,
63, was shown seated between two
Defiant insurgents persist with bombings
At least 116 people, including 11 U.S. soldiers, have died since Iraq’s
first democratically elected government was approved on Thursday.
TURKEY
A car bomb exploded
at the funeral of a -r
Kurdish official,
killing about 25
Iraqis and
wounding more
than 50.
SYRIA
Tal Afar
IRAQ
Five suspects were
detained and confessed to.
a role in killing Margaret
jor , Hassan, the director of
Care International
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SAUDI ARABIA
Insurgents released a
videotape of a man identified
as Douglas Wood, an Australian
living in California and married to an
American woman.
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bombs and four
roadside
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ambushed an Iraqi
checkpoint, killing
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A roadside bomb
exploded wounding
four civilians.
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SOURCE: ESRI
AP
masked militants pointing automatic
weapons at him. His wife, Pearl, told
The Associated Press that she saw
the tape and the man being held was
definitely her husband. She said he
had been in Iraq about 18 months,
working as an engineer.
The car bomb attack occurred in
Tal Afar, 93 miles east of the Syrian
border, the U.S. military and a
provincial official said. Mourners had
gathered for the funeral of Sayed Tal
ib Sayed Wahab, an official of the
Kurdish Democratic Party, said
deputy provincial governor and par
ty spokesman Khisru Goran, speak
ing from nearby Mosul.
Goran said a car plowed into the
funeral tent and exploded, but the
U.S. military said it was not a suicide
attack. About 25 people were killed
and more than 50 wounded, the U.S.
military said.
U.S. troops, Iraqi police and ambu
lances raced to the carnage, but
unidentified gunmen blocked the
road and fighting broke out,
Goran said.
At least six other car bombs —
one of them a suicide attack — and
four roadside explosions hit Bagh
dad on Sunday, killing six Iraqis,
wounding more than 20 civilians
and five U.S. soldiers.
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