as they leave a Mosque 50 miles outside Baghdad. God, this was sadly predictable.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A truck exploded Saturday as worshippers left a Sunni mosque in a city in a volatile area west of Baghdad, killing at least 35 people and wounding 62, local police said.
The afternoon explosion in Habbaniyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad in the insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, came after prayer services at the mosque, which is adjacent to a police station, police officer Abdul-Aziz Mohammed said.
Earlier on Saturday, thousands of Shiites rallied in the holy city of Najaf to protest the nearly 12-hour detention of the eldest son of Iraq's most influential Shiite politician as he crossed back from Iran.
Amar al-Hakim, who was taken into custody on Friday, complained Saturday that U.S. soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded him before his release and "strongly abused" his bodyguards.
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