Suicide bomber kills 22 in Iraq election attack

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Source: Reuters

At least 22 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy election campaign tent in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Saturday, police and medics said.

Another 60 people were wounded in the attack, which began with a hand grenade being thrown into the tent in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of the capital Baghdad.
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Muthanna al-Jorani, the Sunni candidate whose tent was targeted on Saturday, was not hurt in the attack.

At least 10 candidates have been killed in recent weeks, most of them from the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shi'ite politician.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/06/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE93503U20130406

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BBC link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22051123

[Botany]

1. W on Iraq in 2010

Bush says, “I mean apologizing would basically say the decision was a wrong decision.
And I don’t believe it was the wrong decision.