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Iraq's first female suicide bomber kills 6
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-29 13:58 "We can expect they'll do everything in their power to try to stop the march
of freedom," Bush said. "And our troops are ready for it."
The U.S. military announced Wednesday that two more American soldiers and an
airman were killed in violence and a Marine was killed by a non-combat gunshot.
The deaths brought to 1,929 the number of U.S. service members who have died
since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press
count.
In the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, an attacker set off an explosion
in the home of a bodyguard of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on
Wednesday, killing two people and wounding five, al-Sadr aides and a hospital
official said.
In the attack at the Tal Afar army recruitment center, the female suicide
bomber was wearing a traditional white "dishdasha" robe and a checkered kaffiya
headscarf — both worn only by men — to blend in with the line of Iraqi
applicants, Maj. Jamil Mohammed Saleh said.
She detonated explosives packed with metal balls and hidden under her
clothes, Saleh said. Six recruits were killed and 35 wounded, said hospital
officials in Tal Afar, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad.
In a photo of the attacker's head taken by Saleh and shown to AP, the woman
appeared to be in her early 20s with dark eyes, light skin and brownish hair.
Saleh said it was not known whether she was Iraqi.
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