(Adds details) BAGHDAD, April 4 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed nine people and wounded 30 others at a funeral in Diyala province north of Baghdad on Friday, a senior Iraqi security official said. The bomber struck as people gathered at a cemetery in the city of Baquba for the funeral of a policemen who had been killed on Thursday, said Abdul Kareem al-Rubaie, commander of Diyala security operations. Diyala has been one of the main battlegrounds between Sunni Islamist al Qaeda militants and U.S. and Iraqi forces.
A U.S. soldier guards a helicopter in Mussayab, a predominately Shi'ite neighbourhood 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad April 2, 2008. The United States could quickly lose its security gains ...
