An Iraqi man killed and buried his teenaged daughter after learning she had intended to become a suicide bomber for al Qaeda, a security official said on Friday. Iraqi security forces raided the man's house in Mandili, 100 km (60 miles) north-east of Baghdad, to search for Shahla Najim al-Anbaky after receiving information that she had ties to the Sunni militant group.
They arrested her father, Najim Abd al-Anbaky, on Thursday when he confessed he had killed his daughter and buried her body near his house, said Major Ghalib al-Jubouri, a police spokesman in Diyala province. "He confessed he killed her when he learned she worked for al Qaeda and she wanted to blow herself up," Jubouri said. The man guided security forces to his daughter's grave, he said.
Diyala, a mainly Sunni Arab province with significant Shia and Kurdish populations, has seen some of the worst violence since the US-led invasion in 2003. In a separate incident, suspected al Qaeda militants bombed the home of a Shia family in a town south of Baghdad on Friday, killing five people. Three bombs were planted overnight at the home of Mohammed al-Karrafi, a follower of anti-American Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, in Haswa, a religiously mixed town about 50 km (30 miles) south of the Iraqi capital, police said.
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