Senior Iraqi intelligence officer among the dead after suicide bombs hit Mosul

A suicide bomber killed [2] a senior Iraqi army intelligence officer and three bodyguards on Saturday when he detonated his explosives at the officer's home in the northern city of Mosul [3], police said.

Iraq has seen an increase in suicide bombings since the start of the year as Sunni Islamist insurgents tied to al Qaeda [4] try to ignite the kind of sectarian violence that pushed the country close to civil war in 2006-2007.

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