At least twenty people killed in suicide bombing in Iraqi Police Academy in Baghdad
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  • According to reports, a suicide bomber detonated his car as a group of police recruits left their academy in Baghdad, killing 20 in the latest strike on security officials. Police said the suicide bomber was waiting on the street outside the fortified academy near the Interior Ministry headquarters in an eastern neighborhood in the Iraqi capital. As the crowd of recruits exited the compound’s security barriers and walked into the road, the bomber drove toward them and blew up his car. Five policemen were among the dead; the rest were recruits. Another 28 recruits and policemen were wounded. Iraq’s police are generally considered to be the weakest element of the country’s security forces, which are attacked in bombings and drive-by shooting almost every day. The last big assault on police came in October, when 25 people were killed in a string of attacks that included two bombers slamming explosives-packed cars into police stations. Shiite lawmaker Hakim al-Zamili, who sits on parliament’s security and defense committee, said the academy’s officials should have been more careful about letting the recruits go at the same time every day. He said that was a pattern that insurgents easily noted. Al-Zamili blamed al-Qaida for launching the attack. 1

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