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Thursday, March 10, 2005

Bomber kills 47 at mosque

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MOSUL, Iraq -- A suicide bomber blew himself up in the courtyard of a Shi'ite mosque during a funeral yesterday, killing at least 47 persons and wounding more than 100.

U.S. troops cordoned off the northeastern Tameem neighborhood near the mosque, a poor area of the city crowded with many homes. Civilian vehicles helped ambulance crews ferry casualties to hospitals.

"As we were inside the mosque, we saw a ball of fire and heard a huge explosion," said Tahir Abdullah Sultan, 45. "After that, blood and pieces of flesh were scattered around the place."

The attack came as Iraq's main Shi'ite alliance and a Kurdish bloc said they reached a deal that sets the stage for a new government to be formed.

The two groups are to sign an agreement this weekend clearing the way for the country's first freely elected National Assembly to convene next week, Iraqi officials said yesterday.

With violence in Iraq returning to pre-election levels, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned the Iraqi leadership and American military yesterday to take care not to step on the civil liberties of an increasingly frustrated population while fighting to crush the revitalized insurgency.

He also said in his report that the scale and sophistication of insurgent attacks were increasing, worrying signs as Iraq's new leaders prepare to take power.

The suicide bomber killed at least 47 persons and wounded more than 100, said Dr. Saher Maher, speaking from a hospital in Mosul.

He said U.S. troops took 10 "very critical" patients to a military medical facility at their base nearby.

Terrorists, who are predominantly Sunni Muslims, in the past have targeted Shi'ite mosques and funerals.

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