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Bomb in northern marketplace kills women and children Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ap8kI37i_JxA&refer=us http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ap8kI37i_JxA&refer=us Bombing in Northwest Iraq Kills 17, Including Women, Children May 9 (Bloomberg) -- At least 17 civilians, including women and children, were killed late today by a suicide truck bombing in Tal Afar, a northwestern Iraqi city, according to President Jalal Talabani's Kurdish political party. At least 35 others, most of whom were women and children, were wounded after a white pickup truck carrying flour exploded about 8:30 p.m. in the city's marketplace, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said on its Arabic-language Web site. The perpetrators have not been identified. The violence came in a city that President George W. Bush has cited as an example of progress in fighting rebels in Iraq. Bush in March said his confidence in his Iraq strategy stemmed from the success that U.S. and Iraqi personnel have had in Tal Afar, a city of about 290,000 people. The city was a staging ground for insurgents until the U.S. began an offensive in September that stabilized the city ``block by block,'' and allowed people to resume their daily lives, Bush said. ``It took time to understand and adjust to the brutality of the enemy in Iraq,'' Bush told the City Club of Cleveland on March 20. ``Yet the strategy is working.'' Bush's job approval rating fell to a record low of 31 percent in a USA Today/Gallup poll released yesterday. The survey, carried out May 5-7, offered no details on which issues hurt Bush the most. Other public opinion polls show that dissatisfaction over the war in Iraq, along with concern about rising gasoline and health care costs, have sapped Bush's popularity. One U.S. soldier was killed and another was wounded in Tal Afar on May 7 as they helped Iraqi security forces clear a building from which gunmen were firing at civilians and Iraqi and coalition troops, the U.S. military said in a statement. On April 12, a car bomb in Tal Afar killed three Iraqi civilians and wounded seven, the Kurdish Web site reported at the time. Last Updated: May 9, 2006 15:25 EDT

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