The Insider: Daily Terrorism Report

July 28 -- A suicide car bomb exploded outside a police recruiting center in central Baqouba on Wednesday, killing 68 Iraqis and turning the busy city streets into a bloody tangle of twisted metal and dead bodies, news wires reported on Wednesday.The attack, which killed 21 people inside a passing bus, was the deadliest bombing in Iraq since the United States transferred sovereignty to an interim government June 28.

And in Indonesia's war on terror, police won't charge militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir in the 2002 Bali bombings, officials said Wednesday, after Indonesia's constitutional court curbed the use of a tough anti-terror law.

IRAQ NEWS

Iraq Suicide Car Bombing Kills 68 PeopleA suicide car bomb exploded outside a police recruiting center in central Baqouba on Wednesday, killing 68 Iraqis and turning the busy city streets into a bloody tangle of twisted metal and dead bodies. (AP)

Armed Group Threatens To Cut Jordan-Iraq Road Supply To U.S. ForcesAn armed group on Tuesday threatened to block the highway linking Jordan to Iraq within 72hours to cut road supply to US forces, Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite channel reported. (Xinhuanet)

Jordan Firm Bends To Iraq KidnapA Jordanian firm supporting US forces in Iraq says it will scale down its operations to try and save the lives of two abducted employees. (BBC)

Freed Egyptian Thinks Remorse Turned CaptorsIn the end, Muhammad Mamdouh Qutb figures it was his captors' remorse that led to his freedom. (NY Times)

Indian, Filipino Truck Drivers Continue to Carry Fuel to IraqAn Indian truck driver working for a Saudi transportation company was seriously injured when his vehicle, part of a 50-truck convoy, was fired upon by a group of insurgents in Iraq on Monday night. (Arab News)

Abductions Spark Debate Over the Right ResponseDespite U.S. and Iraqi appeals, negotiation is the preferred choice. A tribal leader agrees. (LA Times)

U.S. General Witnessed Abuses, Iraqi SaysThe American general who headed the U.S. military prison at Abu Ghraib personally witnessed abuses there, an Iraqi man alleged in a federal lawsuit protesting his treatment. (AP)

U.N. and Congress in Dispute Over Iraq Oil-for-Food InquiriesCongressional committees investigating allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq are at odds with the organization's own inquiry over access to records and personnel, legislators and United Nations officials said yesterday. (NY Times)