Iraq: at least 20 killed in suicide bombing

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
At least 20 people were killed in a suicide bombing in a home northeast of Baghdad on Monday, a senior Iraqi commander said. Many of the dead were police. Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim al-Rubaie, the military commander of operations in Diyala province, said that 20 people died and 30 were wounded in the evening attack in Balad Ruz, 70 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. A police officer said the attacker was a woman. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media. Another security official said the bomber targeted the house of a former police commissioner who had been detained in Camp Bucca, a US-run prison, for one year and was released earlier on Monday. At the time of the explosion, the detainee was hosting relatives and friends at a banquet.