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Nine killed, 38 wounded in Iraq attacks
 
 
 
 
 
 
 AFP - Sunday, September 13
BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) - - Nine people, including four members of a government-backed Sunni militiaman's family, were killed in Iraq on Saturday in attacks that also left 38 wounded, officials said.
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A roadside bomb in Baquba, north of Baghdad and the capital of Diyala province, successfully targeted relatives of a Sahwa (Awakening) member, a police officer said, giving the toll.
Two family members were wounded, he added.
The Sahwa, known as the Sons of Iraq by US forces and comprised of former insurgents, began to ally with American troops in 2006 in an effort to combat Al-Qaeda rebels.
The force, which is now under the control of the Baghdad government, was credited with reducing violence, firstly in Anbar province, an Al-Qaeda hotspot, and then in other areas of the country.
In Baghdad, three people were killed when a parked car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army base and close to the health ministry, an interior ministry official said.
An official at Medical City Hospital in the capital said 35 people were being treated for injuries.
In western Baghdad, a civilian was killed and another wounded when a home-made bomb exploded as they drove past in their car.
Police, meanwhile, said they successfully defused a bomb placed inside a Koran, the Muslim holy book, at a Shiite shrine in the capital's Kadhimiyah district.
And in the northern city of Mosul, a traffic policeman died when a roadside bomb targeting a passing Iraqi army patrol was detonated, local police said.
The latest casualties come after the number of violent deaths in Iraq hit a 13-month high in August, raising fresh concerns about stability after the government admitted that security is worsening.
Government statistics showed that 456 people -- 393 civilians, 48 police and 15 Iraqi soldiers -- were killed. That was the highest monthly toll since July 2008, when 465 died.
The high number of Iraqis killed last month was partly explained by twin truck bomb attacks on the finance and foreign ministries in Baghdad that left at least 95 people dead and 600 others wounded on August 19.
On Thursday, a top US officer said Al-Qaeda has staged the majority of violent attacks in Iraq since the end of June when US troops withdrew from the country's cities.
"The high-profile attacks that you are seeing and that are getting the publicity, are Al-Qaeda attacks," General Charles Jacoby, the number two ranking US officer in Iraq, told reporters in Washington via video link.
 
 
 
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