15 die in Baghdad suicide attack

A suicide bomber blew up his his car outside the home of the leader of Iraq’s biggest political party today, killing 15 people and injuring dozens.

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 Baghdad home at the time but was not injured, said his spokesman, Haitham al-Husseini.