Funeral bombing, other attacks kill at least 14 in Iraq
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A triple bombing struck the funeral of the son of an anti-Al Qaeda tribal leader northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, one of several attacks across the country that left 14 people dead, Iraqi officials said.
The blasts hit a gathering of mourners in Wajihiya, some 45 miles from the capital, killing 11 and wounding 45.
The funeral was for a local Sunni tribal sheik's son who died a day earlier. Police said the father was a member of Sahwa, which had joined forces with U.S. troops at the height of the Iraq war to fight al-Qaida. Iraqi troops and Sahwa fighters have been a favorite target for Sunni insurgents, who consider them to be traitors. It was not clear how the son died.
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Two policemen were killed and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their patrol in Baghdad's western suburbs of Abu Ghraib, said police and hospital officials.
In Fallujah, police said, gunmen shot dead Sunni cleric Khalid al-Jumeili, an organizer of the western city's Sunni protest camp, in a drive-by shooting.
Sunni protest camps sprang up across the country this spring to protest what the group considers to be second-class-citizen treatment by the Shiite-led government. A crackdown on one such camp in the north in April set off the current wave of violence, in which more than 5,500 people have been killed according to the U.N.
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Medics at nearby hospitals confirmed the casualty figures for all attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media.