Iraq: suicide attack leaves three dead, four wounded

Since this is an al-Qaeda affiliated attack, one wonders if the suicide bomber was a child. "Suicide car bomber kills three policemen in Iraq," from ABC News, July 31:

Three police officers were killed and four others wounded when a suicide bomber tried to ram his car into a police station in northern Iraq, police said.

The attack occurred in the small town of Al-Geyar, about 50 kilometres from the violence-ridden northern city of Mosul, police captain Ayhmed al-Jiburi said.

Suicide bombers have struck routinely in and around Mosul, a well-known Al-Qaeda stronghold, despite a series of military operations there.

The attack came as about 50,000 Iraqi police and soldiers, with support from US troops, carried out a major military sweep directed against another Al-Qaeda fighter bastion further south, Diyala province.