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June 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The bomb exploded in a tent filled with about 150 mourners who had gathered for the funeral procession of a leader of the Zubaidi Shia tribe in the northern city of Baqouba on Monday, AFP reported.
An army first lieutenant, four police officers, and seven security forces were among the dead.
Earlier in the day, the convoy of Sami al-Massudi, the deputy director of the Shia Wafq (Shia Endowment) of Iraq was targeted by a roadside bomb in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
The deputy director of the Shia Wafq, which is a government-run body that oversees Shia religious sites in Iraq, said the blast injured three of his bodyguards.
“Absolutely this is the way of al-Qaeda –targeting innocent people to ignite sectarian unrest,” said Sadiq al-Husseini, who is the chairman of the Diyala provincial council.
The incidents are the latest in a string of attacks against Shia Muslims that left over 100 people dead across the country last week.
On June 16, two car bombings killed about 32 people on the day of the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of the seventh Shia Imam, Imam Musa Kazim (PBUH). And on June 13, a series of attacks by al-Qaeda terrorists killed over 70 people.
Violence has risen in Iraq since December 2011, when an arrest warrant was issued for fugitive Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who has been charged with running a death squad targeting Iraqi officials and Shia Muslims.
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