Sticky IED kills civilian in Babel

BABEL/ IraqiNews.com: A civilian on Tuesday was killed in an explosive charge attack in the northwest of Hilla city, a local police source said. “On Tuesday, a civilian was killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) was stuck to his bike in al-Maseeb district (50 km northwest of Hilla),” the source told IraqiNews.com. The source did not provide further details. Babel, a Shiite province that lies 100 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has an area of 6,468 square kilometers (2,497.3 sq mi), with an estimated population of 1,385,783 people in 2003. The provincial capital is the town of al-Hilla. The ancient ruins of Babylon (Babil, after which the region is named) are also in the province. SS (P) 1