Al Jazeera covers the marine who was protecting himself and his squadmates from a terrorist illegally using a Mosque in Iraq, playing the video about 300 times. Do you think they'll cover this one as much?
Suicide bombers crash van into mosqueDouble standards, baby.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four suicide bombers drove a minibus loaded with explosives into a northern Baghdad Shiite mosque early Friday, killing 14 civilians, many who had gathered for morning prayers, police said.
The bombing was part of a wave of simultaneous attacks in Baghdad that killed 25 people, including 11 Iraqi police officers killed in an attack on their station, in
addition to the bombers.
Dr. Sabah Kadhim, senior adviser to Iraq's minister of the interior, said 19 civilians were wounded in the mosque attack in the Sunni al-Adhamiya neighborhood.
At about the same time as the bombing, insurgents fired five rockets at the al-Adhamiyah police station, but no injuries were reported.
Another Baghdad police station came under attack.
An Iraqi police officer from al-Bayaa police station in the al-Amil district said more than 20 insurgents, driving 11 vehicles, stormed the station, carrying rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. Eleven Iraqi police officers were killed and five others wounded.
The insurgents also freed more than 20 prisoners in a cell at the police station, which straddles the road to the Baghdad airport. The road has become one of the city's bloodiest locations.
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