Suicide bomber attacks checkpoint near new Iraqi PM's house
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STORY: A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the Baghdad home of new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday (August 12), two police sources and local media said.
There was no word on casualties but a building was severely damaged, and debris remained scattered on the ground early on Wednesday (August 13) .
Officials in Abadi's office were not immediately available for comment on the attack. One official said: "We are in a meeting".
Iraq's president nominated Abadi, a low-key figure, as prime minister because he is seen as a moderate Shi'ite, unlike his predecessor Nuri al-Maliki, widely regarded as an authoritarian and sectarian ruler.
Maliki rejected calls by Sunnis, Kurds, some Shi'ites, power broker Iran and the United States to step aside for a less polarising figure who is capable of uniting Iraqis against Islamic State insurgents who seized large sections of the country.
Although Maliki condemne
STORY: A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the Baghdad home of new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday (August 12), two police sources and local media said.
There was no word on casualties but a building was severely damaged, and debris remained scattered on the ground early on Wednesday (August 13) .
Officials in Abadi's office were not immediately available for comment on the attack. One official said: "We are in a meeting".
Iraq's president nominated Abadi, a low-key figure, as prime minister because he is seen as a moderate Shi'ite, unlike his predecessor Nuri al-Maliki, widely regarded as an authoritarian and sectarian ruler.
Maliki rejected calls by Sunnis, Kurds, some Shi'ites, power broker Iran and the United States to step aside for a less polarising figure who is capable of uniting Iraqis against Islamic State insurgents who seized large sections of the country.
Although Maliki condemne