12 September 2008
AFP
Suicide bomber kills 31 in attack on Iraq police station
SAMARRA, Iraq (AFP) - A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-filled truck near the police station of the central Iraqi Shiite town of Dujail on Friday, killing at least 31 people, officials said. It was the second attack on Friday targeting the country's majority Shiite community after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in the northern town of Sinjar earlier in the day killing two worshippers. The bomber struck in Dujail, in the Sunni province of Salaheddin north of Baghdad, at around 6:00 pm (1500 GMT) just minutes before people were getting ready to break their daily fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Haider al-Dujaili, the head of the Dujail town council, told AFP that 31 people were slain in the bombing and another 30 wounded and were being treated in the Dujail hospital and in the nearby town of Balad Source: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iixfgA8hK-lCBwRQPd94uE0QBRxA

6 September 2008
Associated Press
Suicide bomber kills 6 at outdoor market in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) - A suicide car bomber blasted an outdoor market Saturday in a northern Iraqi city, killing six people and wounding 54, police and hospital authorities said. The attack in the mainly Turkomen city of Tal Afar took place one day after a suicide car bomber struck a convoy carrying ex-Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in Baghdad. The former Pentagon favorite escaped injury but six people, including five of his bodyguards, were killed. Saturday's attack occurred in the same Tal Afar market where a suicide truck bomber killed 28 people and injured 72 last month. That raises questions about whether Iraqi police are capable of maintaining security in the strategic north - where al-Qaida in Iraq remains active - as the Americans hand over more responsibility for security to Iraqi soldiers and police Source: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD931BPU80