A car bomb has detonated in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, killing at least 16 people.
Security sources say 20 others were injured. The bomb went off near a marketplace. Tal Afar lies 450 kilometres north of Baghdad, near Mosul, in an area where US-backed Iraqi forces have in recent months launched a crackdown on al Qaeda Sunni Arab militants. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the anti-American Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says his Medhi Army militia could be dissolved if the United States begins implementing a troop withdrawal timetable. Sadr's militia staged two uprisings in 2004 but backed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's rise to power in 2006.
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