A suicide bomber struck a crowded cafeteria inside an Iraqi army base west of Baghdad at lunchtime on Thursday, killing 16 soldiers and wounding another 60, police said. An eyewitness said the bomber was wearing a military uniform when he detonated himself among soldiers on parade at the base, while army and police sources said the explosion took place at the base's cafeteria. All the casualties were soldiers, the army and police said. The midday attack took place at the joint base shared by Iraqi soldiers and US troops in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Habbaniyah, about 70 km west of Baghdad, an Iraqi army officer said. He described the explosion as “thunderous, leaving bodies and pieces of human flesh scattered all over near the canteen.” It's not immediately clear if any US soldiers were at or near the scene of the blast. The American military had no immediate information on the attack. It also was not immediately known how the attacker was able to evade the base security and approach the troops. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Anbar province was the birthplace of the Sahwa “Awakening” movement in late 2006, where tribes and former insurgents allied with US forces to drive out Al
