![]() ![]() The US military confirmed the explosion but said that initial reports indicated that three civilians and two Iraqi policemen were killed. Omar al-Alwani, a doctor at Ramadi Hospital, told the AFP news agency that five police and nine civilians, including three children, were killed in the attack in the Albu Alwan area of the city. In Ramadi, a suicide bomber in a stolen ambulance killed 14 people on Monday in an attack on a police post in an area controlled by Sunni tribes opposed to al-Qaeda in Iraq, a medical official said. US officials said this month the Quds Force, a unit of Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards, was supplying weapons to Shia groups in Iraq. They said there was no way to know if the Iranian government was involved in supplying the weapons. Military officials who displayed some of the weapons for reporters at a US base in Baghdad said the weaponry was clearly made in Iran. Washington, which accuses Iran of fanning violence in Iraq, is particularly concerned about so-called “explosively formed penetrators”, a sophisticated Iranian-made roadside bomb the US military says has killed 170 US soldiers in Iraq since 2004. An inquiry has been launched,” a security official told AFP news agency. “The bomb was hidden just outside the meeting room. Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shia and one of Iraq’s two vice-presidents, suffered bruises and was taken to a hospital to be examined, an aide said.Ī senior political source said that Abdul-Mahdi was briefly taken to hospital for “routine checks” after suffering minor wounds in the blast. ![]()
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