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  • Airstrike Kills Suspect In Iraq Blasts (Abu Mohammed Afri - bombings that killed over 400)

    09/10/2007 5:44:03 AM PDT · by RDTF · 11 replies · 674+ views
    LA Times ^ | September 10, 2007 | Sam Enriquez
    BAGHDAD--A U.S. airstrike killed a man suspected of directing the Aug. 14 truck bombings in northern Iraq that caused the deaths of more than 400 people, the deadliest single attack since the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, military officials said Sunday. The man, Abu Mohammed Afri, was a leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, U.S. officials said, and was responsible for the synchronized bombings that targeted the Yazidi religious sect, a minority that is neither Muslim nor Christian. The bombings leveled neighborhoods of crude earthen homes and shops, burying victims and overwhelming medical facilities in Nineveh province. Hundreds of...