Bomber kills 13 in Baghdad mosque

A SUSPECTED shoe bomber blew himself up inside one of Baghdad’s most important Shi’ite mosques during prayers yesterday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 28.

The imam of the Buratha mosque in northern Baghdad, a leading politician and deputy in the governing Shi’ite coalition — who often spoke out against the late terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — blamed al-Qaida in Iraq for the attack.

Jalal Eddin al-Sagheer said the attacker was carrying explosive-laden shoes, but the ministry of the interior said that was still unclear. They speculated the suicide bomber may have been carrying a vest, because of the scale of destruction.