Renewed bomb attacks killed over 20 people across Iraq. A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform killed six people and wounded 18 others at the entrance of a Shi’ite mosque in Baquba, 65 km northwest of Baghdad. In another attack, a bomb planted on a minibus in southern Iraq killed four passengers and wounded eight others. Nine more people were also killed in a suicide attack in western Anbar province when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a police checkpoint outside the city of Ramadi1.

In other developments, Baghdad Mayor Sabir al-Issawi stated that the Iraqi government had approved seven bids from European companies to construct a metro system in the Iraqi capital at a projected cost of over $3 billion. Over 15 foreign firms had expressed interest in executing the project, in cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation2.

• 1. “Bombs across Iraq kill 19, wound 39,” Khaleej Times, September 8, 2009, at http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2...
• 2. “Baghdad plans 3-billion-dollar metro system,” Khaleej Times, September 13, 2009, at http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2...