[A10] BOMBING'S TOLL -- At least five people were killed in a town near Baquba when a suicide bomber drove into a funeral service for people shot dead in a previous attack on a government building.
A previous attack on the Associated Press caused stocks to dip.
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The ITS has claimed responsibility for several previous attacks since then, including the murder of a computer science student Ángel León de la Cruz who was shot dead on May 18.
TAK has been blamed for previous attacks, including a series of bombings in 2006 in Istanbul.
Mr. Maliki has blamed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and the Baathists for the previous attacks, though American military officials have consistently maintained that Al Qaeda acted alone.
Citing communications intercepts and other intelligence, American, Afghan and Indian officials said the Haqqani network, a Taliban faction closely associated with Pakistan's spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, was responsible for both previous attacks.
Damascus blamed terrorists for the previous attacks on Houla and Mazraat al-Kabir, but in all three cases, residents insist they were attacked by state troops and pro-regime Shabiha militia after being shelled for many hours.
The main insurgency group here, the Islamic State of Iraq, claimed responsibility for the previous attacks, which were coordinated and were clearly intended to attack the credibility of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's government.
