22 killed in Iraqi conflict

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22 killed in Iraqi conflict

by Salam Faraj Sat Dec 8, 11:08 AM ET

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Another spate of bloodshed involving a suicide bomber, a rocket attack and a US military operation left at least 22 people dead across Iraq on Saturday, police and the military said.

Six people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-packed car into a police building in Iraq's northern oil refinery town of Baiji, a security official said.

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The rocket attack, in which a missile slammed into the home of a local leader of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's movement, killed the activist, his wife and two children, police said.

Uday Hamid Ali, from Sadr's office in the town of Al-Nuamaniyah, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Baghdad in Wasit province, died with his family when the rocket hit their house, police officer Ali Fadhel said.

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