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Iraq Insurgents Boast of Ambush
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Another resident, Raad Musleh al-Dulaimi, 41, said the locals were hesitant to provide information to Americans for fear of being detained or subsequently targeted by insurgents, presenting U.S. soldiers searching for tips with a common problem here.
The manhunt unfolded on a day when bombs detonated in front of the headquarters of a leading Kurdish political party in northern Iraq and ripped through a beleaguered Baghdad market.
The suicide truck bomb that exploded in Makhmur, near the southern border of the area known as Kurdistan, killed at least 50 people and wounded at least 115, according to government and hospital officials. The blast targeted the office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the political organization run by Massoud Barzani, at a time when Kurdish politicians and police were meeting to discuss constitutional issues surrounding the fate of territory around Kurdistan, said Col. Khurshid Abdullah of the 3rd Iraqi Army Division.
The Iraqi constitution mandates a referendum by the end of 2007 to determine whether certain regions, including the oil city of Kirkuk, will become part of Kurdistan. The disputed territory is a sharply divisive issue, as efforts to expand Kurdistan tend to be seen by Sunni Arabs as an attempt to drive them out of the area.
The bomb used in Makhmur was hidden on a truck carrying food, officials said. It killed the town's police chief and wounded the mayor.
In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded in the Sadriya market in a largely Shiite district on the east side of the city, an area that has come under repeated attack. The blast killed at least 17 people and wounded 46, according to the Associated Press. In April, more than 140 people died when a bomb exploded near the market. As part of the effort to secure Baghdad, the U.S. military has erected concrete barriers around markets to try to limit vehicle traffic and prevent catastrophic explosions.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed Sunday and two were wounded when their patrols were struck by bombings in Salahuddin province and near Haditha, in western Iraq, the military said.
Special correspondent Waleed Saffar in Baghdad and other Washington Post staff in Iraq contributed to this report.
