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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/seventeen-killed-in-iraq-explosion.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Seventeen people have been killed in a car-bombing in Ramadi, Iraq" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-seventeen-killed-in-iraq-explosion.jpg" alt="Seventeen people have been killed in a car-bombing in Ramadi, Iraq"/></a></p>
<p>A car bomb has exploded outside government offices in a province west of the Iraqi capital, killing 17 people, officials said. It was the latest deadly hit on a favourite insurgent target.</p>
<p>At least 23 people were also wounded in Sunday&#8217;s blast, according to police and hospital officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief the media.</p>
<p>Anbar Deputy Governor Saadoun Obeid said a traffic jam outside the provincial council compound in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, kept the suicide bomber from reaching the front gate.</p>
<p>He said Governor Qasim al-Fahadawi, who lost an arm in a similar strike a year ago, and other senior Anbar officials were not in the building during the explosion, which he blamed on al-Qaida.</p>
<p>&#8220;The attack is a hallmark of al-Qaida, and we expect such attacks on government buildings as a natural reaction by this terrorist group to the arrest of most of its senior leaders in Anbar,&#8221; Obeid said. &#8220;They want to take revenge for their latest defeats.&#8221;</p>
<p>Police found a second bomb in a nearby parking lot a few minutes later, but said they detonated it in a safe area.</p>
<p>The compound in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, also houses the Anbar police headquarters and the governor&#8217;s office.</p>
<p>Government officials in Anbar, a former stronghold of al-Qaida militants and Sunni insurgents, have frequently been targeted by insurgents.</p>
<p>Last December, the Islamic state of Iraq, an al-Qaida front group, claimed responsibility for an attack on the same compound. That attack caused al-Fahadawi to lose an arm and undergo leg surgery in the US.</p>
<p>And in July, a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a reception room outside al-Fahadawi&#8217;s office. Al-Fahadawi was not there at the time, but the blast coincided with a trip to Iraq by Vice President Joe Biden, undercutting his optimistic predictions of a peaceful transition of power as the nation was beset by political uncertainty.</p>
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