Bombers kill nearly 40 in Iraq

By Adrian Croft BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombers killed nearly 40 people in Iraq on Thursday, including 20 at a tribal council meeting in Anbar province just days before the U.S. military transfers control of security for the vast western region to Iraqi forces. In the northern city of Mosul, a car bomb killed 18 people and wounded 62 near the office of the governor of surrounding Nineveh province, officials said. Nineveh Governor Duraid Kashmula had just left his office to investigate damage caused by two rockets that landed nearby when the car bomb went off. The governor was unhurt. Officials said the bomb may have been an assassination attempt. Violence in Iraq fell to a four-year low last month, but there have been a spate of attacks in the past week, especially in and around Mosul, which the U.S. military has called Sunni... [read full story]