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Police say a suicide bomber detonated his car as the recruits exited the compound's security barriers in northeastern Baghdad Sunday. Hospital officials say all of the dead were either police officers or cadets. Iraqi police recruits have been attacked...
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Police and hospital sources said 14 cadets and five police were killed, and 26 people were wounded. All except two of the wounded were police or cadets. "I can see body parts scattered on the ground and boots and berets covered with blood. Many cars...
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A burnt vehicle is pulled away from the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad February 19, 2012. A suicide car bomber killed 19 police officers and cadets on Sunday in an attack on a crowd outside Baghdad police academy, police and hospital sources said. View Photo »
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Professor Tanter added, "But the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) works at cross purposes with UNHCR. While UNHCR stands ready to conduct Refugee Status Determination to resettle the dissidents in other countries, UNAMI colludes with...
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After a period of relative calm in Baghdad, peace was interrupted Sunday when a suicide car bomber killed at least 12 people at a checkpoint near a police training academy Sunday. A political crisis pitting Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki against...
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17, while estimates of the number of people wounded varied between 18 and 23. “I can see body parts scattered on the ground and boots and berets covered with blood. Many cars were set ablaze,” said a policeman working at the academy on Palestine Street...
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Security forces prepare to tow away a destroyed car after a car bomb attack outside the fortified academy near the Interior Ministry headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. A suicide bomber detonated his car as a group of police recruits... View Photo »
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Gunmen also attacked a police checkpoint in the town of Abu Khamis, north of Baqouba, on Sunday. Three people were killed in the attack. Police officials said two people were also injured in a roadside bombing near the city of Samarra, about 110...
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A suicide car bomber blew himself up in front of a Baghdad police academy on Sunday, killing 15 people and wounding 21 others in the deadliest attack for weeks in the Iraqi capital, security officials said. At least seven other people were killed in...
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Baghdad (Arabic بغداد Baġdād) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. It is the second-largest city in southwest Asia (after Tehran) and the second-largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo). With an estimated population of seven million, it is the largest city in Iraq. Full Article
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