According to reports, a suicide bomber detonated his car as a group of police recruits left their academy in Baghdad, killing 20 people. According to Police sources, 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, police said 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. 1

• 1. “20 people killed in Iraqi police academy blast,” Khaleej Times, February 19, 2012, at
  http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle11.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2...