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Marine in Iraq Suspended Over Coins Quoting Gospel
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Officials said the bomber detonated explosives among a cluster of poor young men who had been camped out for days to apply for jobs as police officers in Sinjar, a remote village near the Syrian border where hundreds of people were killed last summer in the deadliest suicide attack of the war.
The police had been ordering the men to leave for several days, shooting in the air and blaring on loudspeakers that there were no jobs, residents said. The bomber, a man in his twenties wearing a police uniform, walked into the crowd at 11 a.m., raised his left hand and blew himself up, according to witnesses.
Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said the Sinjar police chief, Awad al-Sorchi, would be removed from his position and investigated by a panel reviewing the attack, according to Abdul Karim Khalaf, a ministry spokesman.
In other violence, a suicide bomber killed two police officers and wounded 10 other people in the northern city of Mosul, officials said. A roadside bomb in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, killed two Iraqi soldiers and injured a third.
In the holy city of Najaf, Iraqi troops arrested five Bangladeshi men they accused of being terrorists, the military said. Officials said the men, who entered Iraq with a tourist company, were found with rocket-propelled grenades, explosives and CDs from training camps in Afghanistan.
Special correspondents Uthman al-Mokhtar in Fallujah, Dlovan Brwari in Mosul, Saad Sarhan in Najaf and Saad al-Izzi, Zaid Sabah and K.I. Ibrahim in Baghdad contributed to this report.
