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19 May 2013 Sunday
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Suicide bomber in west Iraq kills nine
8 September 2009 /REUTERS
A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a police checkpoint just outside Iraq's western city of Ramadi on Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 13, police said.
The blast set half a dozen cars ablaze in Ramadi, 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Baghdad, capital of the vast desert region that was once the heartland of Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgency.
Police checkpoints have been a favorite target of insurgents seeking to show that Iraqi security forces are still unable to keep Iraqis safe as US troops gradually withdraw.
Western Anbar province, controlled by al Qaeda in the years following the US-led ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003, has been relatively quiet since influential tribal sheikhs joined forces with US troops to drive out the Sunni militants in 2006. But sporadic attacks continue. US forces are due to halt combat operations entirely next summer and withdraw all forces by the end of 2011.
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