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Suicide Attack Kills Iraq Police Recruits

NPR | By Jamie Tarabay

Published May 3, 2006 at 9:21 AM EDT

A suicide bomb attack underlines an ongoing campaign to discourage Sunni Arabs from joining government security forces, killing 15 police recruits in Anbar province. And in Baghdad, authorities find the bodies of 16 Iraqi men who appear to be the victims of sectarian death squads.

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