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Blast Kills 14 Near Iraq Market

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By PATRICK QUINN, The Associated Press

Published: December 29, 2007

BAGHDAD - A car bomb left at least 14 people dead in the capital Friday, and U.S. troops chasing extremists in one of their last remaining bastions in central Iraq said they killed five al-Qaida gunmen.

In Baghdad, police claimed to have uncovered a weapons cache on property owned by the son of Adnan al-Dulaimi, one of Iraq's most influential Sunni politicians. His son, Maki Adnan al-Dulaimi, was jailed one month ago for his alleged involvement with some car bombs found at his father's Baghdad compound.

The midday explosion in Tayaran Square - a predominantly Shiite area that has been targeted by insurgents in the past - came just after Friday prayers. The downtown square is crowded with falafel and other food stands, and is popular with people hawking secondhand and cheap clothes.

One of the few remaining hot spots is Diyala province just north of Baghdad, where many Islamic extremist have fled. The U.S. military said it had killed four heavily armed gunmen tied to al-Qaida in Iraq in an operation near Muqdadiyah in Diyala. Another was killed in a predominantly Sunni area south of Baghdad.

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