Bombs kill mayor, injure Iraq tribal leader

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BAGHDAD, Oct 5 (Gulf News): Roadside bombs killed a Shiite mayor and wounded a tribal leader working with US military forces yesterday, part of a spate of apparently sectarian attacks across the country.
Abbas Al Khafaji, Shiite mayor of Iskandariya and a member of the powerful Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, was killed along with four of his guards in an attack on his convoy, police said.
In Salahuddin province north of Baghdad a tribal leader cooperating with US forces, Shaikh Muawiya Jebara, was wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near his motorcade. The bomb killed three of Jebara's guards, his brother Abdullah said.
In Baghdad, police said a bomb planted in a minibus killed four people and wounded eight as they were queuing for fuel in the southern district of Zaafaraniya yesterday morning.
Five other people were killed by bombs in the Iraqi capital. A suicide car bomber killed at least three people and injured 30 at a market in Tal Afar.
Meanwhile, a Sunni member of the Iraqi parliament was among nearly two dozen people detained at the weekend when the US military raided a suspected Al Qaida gathering, a parliamentary spokes-man said.
Nayyif Jasem Mohammad from the Concord Front, the main Sunni Arab bloc in parliament, was among those seized in Sharqat, 300km northwest of the Iraqi capital, the spokesman said.