Dozens Killed in Violence Around Iraq - New York Times

Dozens Killed in Violence Around Iraq - New York Times: "BAGHDAD, June 5 — Up to 18 people were killed south of Falluja today when a suicide bomber driving a truck packed with high explosives plowed into a busy commercial district. The attack also wounded at least 15 people, according to a local Iraqi police official.

An American military spokesman put the toll at 15 killed and 13 wounded.

A security official in Anbar Province said that just hours after this morning’s attack in Falluja, another suicide bomber used a truck full of explosives hidden beneath piles of raw wool to attack an Iraqi police checkpoint in eastern Ramadi, killing eight policemen and wounding four more. But a Marine spokesman, Maj. Jeff Pool, later said that reports of the bombing were false. “Nothing happened there,” he said.

Another suicide bomb attack was foiled in Baghdad this when a woman wearing an explosive belt approached a line of Shiite police recruits in the eastern part of the capital but was shot by police commandos. Suspecting the woman was a bomber, the commandos chased her away from the line, an Interior Ministry official said, but her explosive device detonated and injured three of her pursuers." Read complete post here.