Suicide Bomb Attack Kills 40 at US-Iraqi Military Base
27 March 2006
Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber killed 40 Iraqis Monday at a joint U.S.-Iraqi base north of Baghdad.
They say the bomber detonated his explosives at an army recruiting center near Tal Afar.
The attack came as Shi'ite ministers in Iraq's government criticized a U.S-Iraqi operation in Baghdad on Sunday that left 16 people dead. Several ministers say the raid killed unarmed worshippers at a mosque complex in the capital's Sadr City neighborhood.But the U.S. military says Iraqi special forces, acting with U.S. advisors, killed insurgents and freed an Iraqi who had been taken hostage. The military also denied any troops entered the mosque.
In a separate development, Arab television station al-Jazeera aired a videotape purportedly from Saddam Hussein's fugitive lieutenant, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, calling on Arab leaders to boycott the Iraq government and support the Sunni-backed insurgency.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, Iraqi police say 12 bodies that showed signs of torture and strangulation were found early Monday. The discovery comes a day after Iraqi police found 30 decapitated bodies near the city of Baquba.
Earlier reports said the corpses appeared to be the latest victims of sectarian violence that exploded after the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine last month.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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