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Suicide attacks kill 19 in northern Iraq ... bomb has detonated in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, killing at least 16 people.
Security sources say 20 others were injured. The bomb went off near a marketplace. Tal Afar lies 450 kilometres north of Baghdad, near Mosul, in an area where US-backed Iraqi forces have in recent months launched a crackdown on al Qaeda Sunni Arab militants. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the anti-American Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says his Medhi Army militia could be dissolved if the United States begins implementing a troop withdrawal timetable. Sadr's militia staged two uprisings in 2004 but backed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's rise to power in 2006.
(Deutsche Welle)
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