Suicide attack kills 4 in northern Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber, pretending to ask for help, assassinated a senior Iraqi military official and three bodyguards at his home Saturday in the north, officials said.

Brig. Gen. Ali Aouni, the head of the Iraq Defense Ministry’s intelligence academy, and his bodyguards were killed when the bomber detonated his explosive vest just as Aouni was leaving his house in Tal Afar, 420 kilometers (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.