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Suicide Attack Kills Iraq Police Recruits

NPR | By Jamie Tarabay
Published May 3, 2006 at 9:21 AM EDT

A suicide bomb attack underlines an ongoing campaign to discourage Sunni Arabs from joining government security forces, killing 15 police recruits in Anbar province. And in Baghdad, authorities find the bodies of 16 Iraqi men who appear to be the victims of sectarian death squads.

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Jamie Tarabay
After reporting from Iraq for two years as NPR's Baghdad Bureau Chief, Jamie Tarabay is now embarking on a two year project reporting on America's Muslims. The coverage will take in the country's approx 6 million Muslims, of different ethnic, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, and the issues facing their daily lives as Americans.