2 Bombings Kill at Least 7 in Baghdad

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Source: Associated Press

2 bombings kill at least 7 in Baghdad
By HAMID AHMED, Associated Press Writer
25 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A double bombing killed at least seven people and wounded 25 Monday outside the Baghdad office of a government agency that cares for Sunni mosques and shrines, witnesses and a hospital official said. A police officer, however, put the death toll as high as 14.

In the first attack, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the entrance to the Sunni Endowment office in Baghdad's northern Azamiyah district, witnesses and an army official said. As people rushed away, a second explosion — believed to have been caused by a roadside bomb — occurred just yards away.

The dead included Riyadh al-Samarrai, head of a local U.S.-backed armed group, said one witness, an employee of the Sunni Endowment. His account was corroborated by a member of the armed group, who gave his name only as Abu Omar, and by an Iraqi army official.

Another witness, one of al-Samarrai's guards, said the suicide bomber walked up to al-Samarrai — a former police colonel — and embraced him before detonating his explosives.



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1. somebody tell the suide bombers we have surge --

and they are supposed to stop doing that.:eyes:

[Amonester]

2. It'd be a waste of time: they'll still do that 100 years from now.

If there's any lifeforms left on this planet, that is.