Sunni Awakening Leader Among Dead In Adhamiya Suicide Bombing
BAGHDAD — A well-respected Sunni leader who was key in helping reduce violence in his northern Baghdad neighborhood was among at least 15 people killed in three separate suicide bombings Monday, officials said.
Both blasts killed members of local Awakening Councils, continuing a spate of aggressive attacks by al Qaeda in Iraq fighters against the groups in recent weeks.
Riyadh al-Samaraie, an army officer who headed a local Awakening Council, was killed when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive in the Adhamiya district, a Sunni area in northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.
Five others were killed in the blast, including two of al-Samaraie’s guards, and at least 10 more were wounded.
The attack took place inside a compound of the Sunni Endowment, which oversees Sunni religious sites in Iraq.
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January 7th, 2008 at 2:41 pm