Iraqi soldiers stand guard outside an army recruitment center in Baghdad on August 17, 2010, following a suicide bombing (Ali Al-Saadi/AFP/Getty)
A suicide bomber struck a crowd of 300 people this morning in Baghdad. Jane Arraf, a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor was at the scene. She says that a young man with explosives strapped to his legs blew himself up in the crowd of people who had gathered to apply for coveted jobs with the army. Araf says that it seemed like security was lacking.
Saad al Mutalibi, an Iraqi government spokesperson also responds to the attack. He maintains that his country will be more secure without U.S. forces, and that the attaack is not linked to the withdrawal of troops.
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