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NASDAQ delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here. Twelve killed in suicide assault on Iraq army base Tweet This Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Related News Obama: Time to turn the page in Iraq Fri, Sep 3 2010 Interview: Iraq warns others away as U.S. ends combat Wed, Sep 1 2010 Obama: Time to turn the page in Iraq Tue, Aug 31 2010 Iraq independet with end to U.S. combat role - Maliki Tue, Aug 31 2010 U.S. ends combat in Iraq but instability lingers Mon, Aug 30 2010 Analysis & Opinion The U.S. war in Iraq is over. Who won? Why did America spend so long in Iraq? Related Topics World » Medical staff treat a wounded soldier after a bomb attack in Baghdad September 5, 2010. Suicide bombers and gunmen tried to storm an army base in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding 22 less than a week after Washington declared U.S. combat operations in Iraq over, officials said. Credit: Reuters/Stringer By Muhanad Mohammed BAGHDAD | Sun Sep 5, 2010 11:17am EDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Up to five suicide bombers, some armed with rifles, tried to storm an army base in Baghdad on Sunday, killing 12 people and wounding 36 less than a week after Washington declared U.S. combat operations in Iraq over. The assault began when a minibus packed with explosives was driven at the back gate of the base, followed by one or two suicide bombers on foot who blew themselves up when they came under fire. A final pair of gunmen fought an hour-long battle with troops inside a nearby building, security officials said. Sunday's assault took place in broad daylight, just over two weeks after dozens of Iraqi army recruits and soldiers were killed by another suicide bomber at the same compound and a few days after the August 31 end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq. Insurgents are targeting Iraqi police and troops as the U.S. military gradually pulls out more than seven years after invading, while the failure of Iraq's leaders six months after an election to agree a new government has also stoked tensions. "It was an attempt to break into the Rusafa military command," said Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim al-Moussawi. "It was similar to the attack on the central bank but security forces foiled the assault and killed all attackers," Moussawi said, referring to a June 13 siege by up to seven suicide bombers of the Central Bank of Iraq. Moussawi's office put the final toll at 12 killed and 36 wounded. The explosions left a deep crater filled with body parts at the entrance to the base while bloodstains and bullet marks in an unused defense ministry building bore witness to a fierce gunfight. "It was a well organized terrorist attack but our soldiers were alert and managed to stop them," Defense Minister Abdel Qader Jassim said at the scene. GUNFIRE Residents in the neighborhood reported heavy shooting after the explosions and said the gunfire continued for over an hour. Witnesses said they saw gunmen in one mainly Sunni district nearby. The area became an al Qaeda stronghold at the height in 2006/07 of the sectarian warfare unleashed after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and remained dangerous until mid-2009. The base was a defense ministry headquarters under Saddam Hussein and now serves as an army recruitment center as well as a military command. At least 57 recruits and soldiers were killed and 123 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up there on August 17. Tensions are simmering in Iraq six months after an inconclusive election that produced no outright winner. Coalition talks among the country's main Shi'ite-led blocs and a Sunni-backed cross-sectarian alliance that took a narrow lead in the March 7 vote have made little progress. The end of the U.S. combat mission 7-1/2 years after the invasion to topple Saddam has raised fears of a return to broader bloodshed and of increased attacks by Sunni Islamist insurgents. Iraq's 660,000-strong security forces had to be rebuilt from scratch after being disbanded after the invasion. U.S. leaders said last week the Iraq war was in its final stages and that Iraqi security forces are capable of countering violence in the country, but many Iraqis do not believe their army and police are ready for the task. (Additional reporting by Suadad al-Salhy, Ahmed Rasheed and Reuters Television; Writing by Serena Chaudhry; Editing by Michael Christie) World Comments See All Comments (1) | Post Comment Sep 05, 2010 10:21am EDT I believe this is a testament to the last four years of U.S. training of Iraqi military, police and security forces. This shows the Iraqis understood the need to develop their nearly non-existent security structure and then made it happen with U.S. assistance. To repel an unanticipated and multi-pronged attack from heavily armed insurgents shows they have arrived at a level of professionalism which allowed the pullback by the U.S. and the assumption of control and responsibilities by the Iraqis. I say bravo for Iraq. Unfortunately, Afghanistan isn’t going to end the same way. finneganG Report As Abusive See All Comments (1) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. 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