Security forces detonate car bomb in Mosul

Maliki-Bomb NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi security forces on Thursday detonated a car bomb in eastern Mosul, where Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in it to promote to his list’s electoral campaign, a security source said. “An Iraqi army force on Thursday (Jan. 29) managed to detonate a car crammed with explosives in al-Baath neighborhood in eastern Mosul, without casualties,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The forces surrounded the car after suspecting it and detonated it,” he added. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had arrived in Mosul earlier within his electoral campaign for the upcoming provincial council elections. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. SH (P)/SR 1