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Female suicide bomber kills six in Iraq
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-28 19:17
Iraq's insurgents have rarely, if ever, used women to carry out their attacks
— although there was at least one instance of Saddam Hussein's regime using them
during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Days before for the fall of Baghdad
in April 2003, two Iraqi women blew up an explosives-laden car in a suicide
attack that killed three American soldiers at a U.S. checkpoint near the city of
Haditha.
All the six dead and 30 wounded were would-be army recruits in Wednesday's
blast in Tal Afar, about 95 miles east of the Syrian border, Sadr said.
The blast occurred in Tal Afar, 95 miles east of the Syrian border, and it
highlighted the difficulty of maintaining security in the towns in the large
northwestern region stretching to the border, where insurgents are most active.
Iraqi authorities claimed nearly 200 suspected militants
were killed and 315 captured in the Sept. 8-12 offensive in Tal Afar. But U.S.
and Iraqi troops discovered afterward that many of the insurgents had slipped
out, some of them through a network of underground tunnels.
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