Suicide Bomber Kills 16 at Iraq Military Base
By VOA News
16 April 2009
Iraqi army officials say a suicide bomber has killed 16 soldiers at a military base west of Baghdad.
Officials say the attack Thursday in the Anbar provincial town Habbaniyah also wounded at least 50 other people.
Security forces have come under increasing attack in recent days. On Wednesday, a car bomb blast in the northern city Kirkuk killed at least 10 Iraqi security guards. Last week, an attack in Mosul killed two Iraqi policeman and five U.S. soldiers.
The rise in violence, including a spate of bombings in Baghdad earlier this month, has led some U.S. military officials to speculate American troops may not be withdrawn from all Iraqi cities by the end of June, as planned.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.
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