Русская версияA car bomb has detonated in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar,
killing at least 16 people.
Security sources say 20 others were
injured. The bomb went off near a marketplace. Tal Afar lies 450
kilometres north of Baghdad, near Mosul, in an area where US-backed
Iraqi forces have in recent months launched a crackdown on al Qaeda
Sunni Arab militants. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the anti-American
Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says his Medhi Army militia
could be dissolved if the United States begins implementing a troop
withdrawal timetable. Sadr's militia staged two uprisings in 2004
but backed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's rise to power in 2006.
(Deutsche Welle)
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