URGENT / Suicide blast leaves 65 casualties in Baghdad

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Twenty-three civilians were killed and at least 42 others wounded when a wanted suicide bomber attacked a reconciliation conference in the southern Baghdad area of al-Yousufiya on Friday, according to the Baghdad Operations Command. “The bomber blew himself up inside Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Saleh al-Karghouli’s house, where a reconciliation meeting was being held in al-Yousufiya area, southern Baghdad,” BOC spokesman, Maj. General Qassem Atta, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “A man of the name Amin al-Karghouli, a wanted man on charges of several charges, managed to sneak his way into the house and blow himself up,” Atta added. AmR (P) 1