Suicide Bomber Decimates Iraqi Police Recruits

A suicide bomber posing as a police recruit killed at least 50 people and injured more than 150 more in Iraq today. Many of the dead were police or their prospective recruits, who had gathered at a parade ground in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown, the New York Times reports.

One Iraqi parliament member criticized police for being ill-prepared, and holding the event out in the open, instead of simply recruiting online. “I’m asking the security forces, isn’t it enough?” he said on TV. “Isn’t it time to take into account the previous … attacks that have killed thousands of Iraqis?” (More Iraq stories.)