SUICIDE ATTACKS CHIP AWAY AT CALMER IRAQ

A series of suicide bomber attacks, including one yesterday just north of Baghdad that left 18 killed, has dashed any hopes that Iraq is well on the way to being a secure country.


Suicide bomber kills 18 north of Baghdad

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A suicide bomber apparently targeting a senior security official blew himself up inside a funeral tent Monday, killing 18 people in the latest of a series of deadly attacks chipping away at the notion of a calmer Iraq.

The U.S. military has repeatedly warned that the fight against insurgents is not over, and the bombing in a village north of Baghdad was the third in as many days in Sunni Arab areas thought to have been largely rid of al-Qaida militants.