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Bomb kills 8 and wounds 28 in Baghdad
A bomb exploded yesterday in a crowd of day laborers in central Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 28, police said. Dozens of gunmen attacked the provincial offices in Basra, apparently to avenge a tribal leader killed the day before.
All eight people killed in the Baghdad bombing were civilians, though four police were among the wounded, said police Lt. Bilal Ali said.The attack in Basra was carried out by members of the Bani Assad tribe, whose leader was assassinated Tuesday in the southern city. The tribesmen believed senior provincial officials were behind the killing and laid siege to the government headquarters, according to an official trapped in the besieged building.
In Mosul, armed clashes erupted between police and assailants in three predominantly Sunni Arab neighborhoods, police Lt. Col. Abdul-Karim Ahmed Khalaf said. At least five gunmen were killed and six were arrested, he said. Western Mosul is predominantly Sunni Arab, while Kurds dominate in the east of the city. The clashes occurred one day after a suicide car bomber killed nine people in an attack on the Mosul headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a Kurdish party headed by President Jalal Talabani.
Much attention has been focused on the security crisis in Baghdad following a wave of sectarian killings. But the unrest in such widely scattered parts of Iraq indicates the precarious state of security elsewhere in this country and the challenge facing US and Iraqi forces in trying to restore order.
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