This article covers the headline story of a Sunni women suicide bomber who bombed a college campus in Baghdad. The blast occurred at Mustansiriyah University, which is located in the Iraqi city of Baghdad. The bombing killed forty-one students, many of who were busy rushing back after a semester break. The blast left students and their belongings strewn around the campus’s gates. The attack may have been an attempt to get back at the statements made by Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr who said that car bombs would continue to explode as long as the U.S. is involved.
Women suicide bombers are few and far between but not to rare due to the rise in bombings in the past few years. The bombing came only a few weeks after a twin car blast at the same campus killing seventy people. There was also another suicide bombing that killed eighteen in a mostly Shiite section of the city. The Shiites have been the target as of recent times due to the speeches made by their powerful militia leader.

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(Facts and article taken from Comcast News.)

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