CNN REPORTS: SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 22 IN BAGHDAD

Iraqi official: Suicide bomber kills 22 near mourners in Baghdad.

Still another sign the "surge" is a sham and was the creation of the Bush adminsitration and FOX NEWS and never accomplished a single thing. What little progress was made in Anbar Province had to do with Iraqi groups banding together to rid their province of Al Qaeda and the US military had absolutely NOTHING to do with it.

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NEW: Abu Ghraib suicide bomber hits group mourning educator's death
Educator's cousin is a senior police officer in Falluja
A female suicide bomber kills two at a checkpoint near Baghdad

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/14/iraq.main/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 22 people were killed and 40 wounded in a suicide bombing Wednesday evening in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said.

The U.S. military says women are being used more often in Iraqi suicide bombings.

The bomber detonated his explosives at a gathering of mourners in the predominantly Sunni city about 20 miles west of Baghdad.

Police in the nearby city of Falluja said the gathering was for the principal of a technical school in the village of Abu Minasir in Abu Ghraib. The principal was shot dead Monday.

The principal's cousin is a senior police officer in Falluja, and his brother is a leading member of the Sons of Iraq or Awakening, a movement of anti-al Qaeda Sunni groups in the area.

Police and Awakening members have been a target for al Qaeda in Iraq.

In a separate incident, a female suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint south of Baghdad and killed two Iraqi soldiers Wednesday, an Interior Ministry official said.
The official said the bomber detonated an explosive vest, killing an Iraqi commander and a soldier.

The U.S. military also confirmed the incident and said the attacker appeared to be in her late teens. It is the latest in a flurry of attacks carried out by female bombers.

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The Interior Ministry said four people were wounded.

The U.S. military reported one dead and seven wounded and said an Iraqi army battle position was struck.

"Small arms fire ensued for a brief period," the U.S. military said, adding that the incident occurred about 12 miles south of the capital.

The incident occurred as the U.S. military declared success in Operation Lion's Roar, an offensive in northern Iraq targeting Shiite militants.