Suicide bomber kills 15 in Baghdad

by LotusFlower | August 17, 2008 at 12:29 pm

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The carnage continues with another community gaurded checkpoint targetted by suicide bombers in Baghadad. There seems to be no end in sight to this war while ever the occupation continues but what happens if the troops leave right now?

A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a checkpoint in Baghdad manned by US-backed neighbourhood guards today, killing 15 people and wounding 29.

Among those killed in the attack in the mainly Sunni Arab Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad was a leader of the neighbourhood guards in the area, Faruq Abu Omar.

The bomber rode to the checkpoint on a motorcycle and then detonated a vest packed with explosives, police said.

"I carried my nephew in my arms to the hospital. He was alive until we reached the hospital and his blood stained my clothes," Abu Omar's uncle, Ahmed Abu Uday, told Reuters by telephone, his voice breaking with tears.

"I carried ten wounded people to the hospital in my car."