AQI assassinated Talafar council chief – source
December 22, 2009 - 04:02:10
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Investigations indicate that Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) organization is behind the suicide bombing yesterday that left the Talafar municipal council chief dead.
“Interrogations with a number of suspects show that the AQI is responsible for the attack,” a security source from the Ninewa province told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Tuesday.
He did not mention further details, but said that the way the attack was carried out, in addition to other links, prove that the detonation was AQI-made.
On Monday (Dec. 21), a local security source said that the suicide bomber who blew himself up targeting a vehicle carrying the Talafar (60 km northwest of Mosul city) municipal council chief earlier the same day is not more than 20 years of age.
He said that the bomber who targeted the motorcade of the Talafar municipal council head, Hussein Mohammed Ali al-Akreesh, is a lad of no more than 20 years of age.
The toll from the bombing has reached two dead, including Akreesh, and eight wounded persons, including a council member, the source pointed out.
A local medic said that Akreesh died from the wounds he sustained while he was being transferred from the Talafar Public Hospital to a hospital in Duhuk (Kurdistan region).
A security source had said that a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up near a car carrying Akreesh in al-Nour neighborhood, northern Talafar, killing one person and wounding seven others, including Akreesh.
Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
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