Bomb Kills Dozens at Iraqi Funeral

Why Iraqis/Americans will never get along. Ever.
Differences in understanding of way world works.

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber killed 30 people at a funeral in Diyala Province on Thursday, and a fierce dust storm that blanketed much of Iraq provided cover in Baghdad for intensified rocket attacks into the fortified Green Zone.

In Diyala, relatives had gathered in the small village of Albu Mohammed for funerals for the two men, who were killed by gunmen two days before. They were nephews of a prominent Sunni tribal leader, Sheik Kareem Kamil al-Azawi.

A tent was erected to accommodate the mourners, and while family members were setting up lunch tables about 50 yards away, the suicide bomber slipped inside. When the mourners returned, he detonated the explosives in his belt, according to Capt. Qasim al-Nayimi of the Diyala command center.
It seems that they were targeted for their cooperation with American and Iraqi forces in fighting Sunni insurgents.

Sheik Amir Habeeb al-Khaizaran, a member of Parliament whose brother is the head of the Azawi group, said that the two men mourned at the funeral were killed by other members of their tribe who were loyal to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown Sunni insurgent group.