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| Car bomb kills 18 in Iraq market | |
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| At least 18 people have been killed by a car bomb in northern Iraq. | |
| Nearly 50 people were also injured when the bomb exploded in a vegetable market in Tal Afar, 420km (260 miles) north-west of Baghdad. | |
| The town, near Mosul, is in a region where al-Qaeda in Iraq is said to have regrouped since being forced from Baghdad by a US and Iraqi offensive. | |
| The vehicle was parked when it exploded by the market, which was crowded with shoppers on the Muslim day of rest. | |
| In March 2006, Tal Afar was hailed as a model Iraqi town by US President George W Bush, but almost exactly a year later it was the target of one of the deadliest attacks in Iraq's insurgency, when more than 150 people were killed in a truck bombing. | In March 2006, Tal Afar was hailed as a model Iraqi town by US President George W Bush, but almost exactly a year later it was the target of one of the deadliest attacks in Iraq's insurgency, when more than 150 people were killed in a truck bombing. |
| In recent months there have been military operations in the area, says the BBC's Crispin Thorold in Baghdad. | |
| But this attack demonstrates once again that Sunni Muslim insurgents still have the ability to bring death to Iraq's streets, our correspondent adds. |