Nine die as Iraqi suicide bomber targets Shiite leader

At least nine people died and 39 were injured when a suicide bomber targeted the home of the leader of Iraq’s biggest political party today.

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq – the country’s most powerful Shiite political group – was in his home in Baghdad’s Jadiriyah district when the attack occurred, said his spokesman, Haitham al-Husseini.