Residents gather at the site of Monday
night's suicide bomb attack in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad
August 28, 2007. A suicide bomber killed at least nine people
and wounded 11 when he blew himself after evening prayers in a mosque in
Falluja, west of Baghdad, on Monday, police and hospital sources said.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- A suicide bomber
blew himself up among worshippers at a mosque in the city of Fallujah in west of
Baghdad on Monday night, killing at least nine people and wounding 11 others,
local police said.
"A suicide bomber wearing an explosive-belt blew
himself after the evening prayers in the al-Raqib mosque in northern the city of
Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad," the source told Xinhua on condition of
anonymity.
The attack occurred at about 9:30 p.m. local time
(1730 GMT) when the suicide bomber entered the office of the mosque Imam, Abdul
Sattar al-Jumaili, killing him, his son and seven worshippers, along with
wounding 11 people at the scene, the source added.
Jumaili was an opponent for the al-Qaida in Iraq
network and was a target for the group's death squads, the source said.
Al-Qaida's adherence to a hardline form of Sunni
Islam and indiscriminate killings has brought it into conflicts with some Sunni
tribes in the province of Anbar, where Fallujah is located.
MOSUL, Iraq, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi troops raided
an area in the northern city of Mosul on Monday, detaining 22 suspected
militants, including six leaders of insurgent cells, and seized three homemade
bomb factories, an Iraqi military source said.
"More than 2,000 Iraqi soldiers backed by U.S. aircraft
raided the industrial area in southeastern Mosul early in the morning,"
Brigadier, Muta' Habib al-Khazraji, commander of the Iraqi 3rd Division, told
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The White House said on
Sunday that it welcomes pledges from Iraqi leaders to resolve their disputes and
termed such a pledge as "an important symbol."
"We congratulate Iraq's leaders on the important agreement
reached today in Baghdad. Today's agreement is an important symbol of their
commitment to work together for the benefit of all Iraqis," the White House said
in a statement. Full story
