{"id":2916,"date":"2009-12-30T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2009-12-30T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T11:28:46","slug":"bombing-in-western-iraqs-ramadi-kills-20-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/bombing-in-western-iraqs-ramadi-kills-20-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombing in Western Iraq&#8217;s Ramadi Kills 20 People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bombing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2918\" title=\"Bombing Iraq\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bombing-280x210.jpg\" alt=\"Bombing Iraq\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bombing-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bombing.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Iraqi police say a double suicide bomb attack in the western city of Ramadi has killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 30 others.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nPolice say Wednesday&#8217;s bombings appeared to target senior officials of Iraq&#8217;s Anbar province, of which Ramadi is the capital.  They say the attack began with a suicide car bombing on a road near the offices of Anbar&#8217;s governor, Qassim Mohammed al-Fahdawi.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a suicide bomber on foot blew himself up a short time later as al-Fahdawi was leaving the complex to inspect damage from the first blast.<\/p>\n<p>The attack wounded the governor and killed his deputy police commander.<\/p>\n<p>Anbar was a key base for al-Qaida militants and other Sunni insurgents in the years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.  Sunni militants turned against al-Qaida in 2006 and joined forces with the U.S. military, helping to reduce violence in the region significantly.<\/p>\n<p>In other violence, gunmen shot and wounded an Iraqi judge and his wife in the northern city of Kirkuk late Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi police say a double suicide bomb attack in the western city of Ramadi has killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 30 others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,37],"tags":[3851,3849,3854,2618,3853,3852],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-middle-east","tag-bomb-iraq","tag-bombing-in-western-iraq","tag-qassim-mohammed-al-fahdawi","tag-u-s-military","tag-u-s-military-iraq","tag-western-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}