Looks like AQI is making a concerted effort to retake/hold some kind of base in Baquba. This is just one of a series of actions in the past few days in Diyala - but I haven't seen anything of substance anywhere else.BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed 28 Iraqi policemen doing their morning exercises at their base north of Baghdad on Monday, police said, in one of the deadliest strikes on security forces in months.
The bomber entered the base in the volatile Diyala province and blew himself up amidst members of a rapid reaction force, said Major-General Ghanim al-Quraishi, the Diyala police chief.
| How did he get access? I smell a rat ... |
At least 20 people were wounded in the attack, including a woman and a child, police said.
No group claimed immediate responsibility for the Baquba bombing, but it bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda, which has often used suicide bombers in attacks on Iraqi security forces to devastating effect.
The base is in the city of Baquba, capital of Diyala province, a religiously and ethnically mixed region where al Qaeda and other Sunni Arab insurgent groups as well as Shi'ite Muslim militias operate.