A suicide bomber detonated explosives among Iraqi Army volunteers near the Syrian border yesterday, killing 25 and wounding 35, Iraqi officials said. Al-Qaeda's wing in Iraq claimed responsibility. âOne of the lions of a martyrdom brigade of Al-Qaeda in Iraq carried out a heroic operation after he wore an explosive belt and entered a center of the idol-worshipping volunteers,â said the statement, whose authenticity could not be verified.The suicide attack occurred in Rabiah, 370 km north of Baghdad, as a crowd of young men gathered outside a municipal building to volunteer for the Iraqi Army, officials and survivors said. A wounded survivor, Rashid Hamed, said an American soldier asked them to move a short distance away. âMinutes later I saw a portly young man carrying a bag in his hand and heading toward us. I donât remember anything else but waking up in the hospital,â Hamed said from a hospital bed in Mosul, 100 km to the east.