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A suicide bomber killed 20 people at a police recruitment centre in Baghdad on Saturday, while across town an angry crowd of Shi’ites buried a senior cleric gunned down by insurgents.
The Interior Ministry source said the bomber wore an explosive vest beneath civilian clothes when he approached the Interior Ministry’s special forces recruitment centre in Mansour district of western Baghdad.
The same recruitment centre, near the Green Zone government and diplomatic compound, has been targeted by bombers several times in the past. An Interior Ministry source said recruits had been told to come on Saturday, normally a non-working day, to avoid strikes by insurgents.
Meanwhile, in a Shi’ite Muslim neighbourhood across town, thousands of men held aloft the green-shrouded coffin of cleric Kamal al-Din al-Ghoureify, gunned down near his mosque as he drove to prayers on Friday. Ghoureify was a Baghdad representative for Ayatollah Ali al-
Sistani, recognised as spiritual leader by Iraq’s Shi’ite majority. —Reuters
UN Iraq envoy says US troops shot kin
UNITED NATIONS: Iraq’s UN ambassador on Friday accused US Marines of killing his 21-year-old cousin “in cold blood” during a June 25 raid in a village in the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar. Samir S.M. Sumaidaie called on the US to investigate the death in ‘‘a credible and fair way to ensure that justice is done.’’ — Reuters
