Wheelchair Suicide Bomber

Yet another example how terrorists will try to disguise their bombers. They'll hide their bombs in everything from snowballs to pregnant women. Now the list includes wheelchairs.

A suicide bomber in a wheelchair killed a senior policeman in the city of Samarra today.

The bombing, 60 miles north of Baghdad, killed Major-General Abdul-Jabbar Rabee Muttar, the assistant police chief, after two days of savage Iraqi violence.

The attacker talked his way into the local police headquarters by requesting a meeting with the policeman. When the official went to meet him in reception the explosives hidden in his wheelchair were detonated, killing the man instantly and wounding four others.

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Captain Luay Mohammed, another officer, was injured in the attack. “I was with the assistant police chief and we went downstairs to meet him (the bomber) in the reception area. He said he wanted to talk to the assistant police chief alone so we moved a few metres away,” he said.

“Then we saw flames and an explosion. The assistant police chief was beheaded. There were pieces of flesh from the suicide bomber.”

Samarra is in Salahuddin province, where US and Iraqi troops have launched a series of operations to wipe out al-Qaeda militants, who regrouped there after being pushed out of Baghdad and western Anbar province.

The domestic violence, thought to have been orchestrated by al-Qaeda, continued as Turkish forces pounded the mountainous Hakurk region of northern Iraq.