Three blasts struck mourners at a funeral in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 42, security officials and medical workers said. The mourners in Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad, were burying Mudher Shalal, a leader of the province’s Sunni Awakening movement, the units of fighters who were paid to switch sides and fight alongside the United States against Al Qaeda at the height of the war in Iraq. Mr. Shalal was killed by a bomb placed in his car on Saturday. Abu Kareem, one of the survivors of the attack on Sunday, said: “We were on our way to bury the martyr, while we were near the gate of the cemetery. Then there was a blast. I saw people who were carrying the coffin wounded on the ground, and the Iraqi flag that was covering the coffin was on fire.” Also on […]