And a suicide car bomb attack kills 18. From Pakistan’s Daily Times:
TIKRIT: A mortar round landed on Tuesday during a ceremony attended by American ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad and other top officials in the north of the country.
Bodyguards formed a wall around the US envoy before rushing him away after the mortar shell was fired at a ceremony he and US commander General George Casey were attending near Tikrit, an AFP correspondent reported.
“One round did land several hundred yards away, but did not explode,” US military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Johnson said. “There were no injuries,” he added. Casey, bent in half, was surrounded by a number of his officers, and other participants scrambled away for safety…
A suicide car bomb blast killed 18 people, including 10 police, and wounded 28 others in an attack in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, police and doctors at Kirkuk’s main hospital said…