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BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces were tipped off to last week’s suicide bombings in Baghdad just hours before the blasts killed 127 people, a Shiite lawmaker said Saturday after a closed-door parliamentary briefing by the nation’s defense minister.
But the tip was too vague and came too late to stop the bombings, Defense Minister Abdul-Qader al-Obeidi told lawmakers, according to the legislator, who attended the discussion.
The special session of parliament was called to question Iraq’s senior security chiefs, including the defense and interior ministers, about security gaps that allowed the third attack since summer against government sites in the capital.
