48 KILLED, MANY HURT IN SUICIDE ATTACK OUTSIDE IRAQ RECRUITMENT CENTER

17.08.2010 [20:12]
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Baku, August 17 (AZERTAC). At least 48 people were killed and scores were wounded Tuesday morning when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest in central Baghdad as men were queuing up outside an Iraqi army recruitment center, the interior ministry said.

The attack took place in the Bab al-Moudham commercial area. It comes amid the country`s political crisis and the U.S. troop drawdown ahead of President Barack Obama`s August 31 deadline for ending all combat operations.

At least 129 people were wounded in the blast.

The Iraqi government has been pushing to increase security ahead of the drawdown, which would leave a residual U.S. force of 50,000 troops focused on stability operations as well as advising and assisting Iraqi security forces.

Recruitment centers have come under attack in recent months, and many Iraqis have blamed a recent wave of violence on the current political paralysis -- in which quarreling parties have failed to form a government nearly six months after parliamentary elections.

48 KILLED, MANY HURT IN SUICIDE ATTACK OUTSIDE IRAQ RECRUITMENT CENTER

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