Female suicide bomber kills six in Iraq
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-28 19:17

Most of the forces that participated in the offensive have since withdrawn, though U.S. troops maintain a base and outposts in Tal Afar, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad.

"Due to the security vacuum after the withdrawal of (Iraqi) police commandos from Tal Afar, the terrorists came back again," said Abbas al-Bayati, a parliament member and an ethnic Turkman — a community that ha a large presence in Tal Afar.

The blast was similar to an attack a day earlier, in the town of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, where a man strapped with explosives blew himself up in a police recruitment center, killing nine Iraqis.

Soon after the Tal Afar offensive, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born, Sunni Arab leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq insurgent group, declared all-out war on Iraq's majority Shiites.

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