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Militants kill police, injure 7 in Iraq
[Iran Press TV] One Iraqi policeman has been killed at a checkpoint in the north and seven others have been injured in separate militant attacks in the capital, Baghdad.One police officer was killed on Monday when a group of armed men stormed a police checkpoint in the al-Midan region in central Mosul, the Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported. Mosul, located 390 kilometers (240 miles) north of Baghdad, is the second largest city in Iraq and is the capital of the northern province of Nineveh. That same day, a mortar shell targeted the house of former Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad, leaving six of his guards wounded. An employee of the Iraqi culture ministry was also injured that evening by a bomb blast in western Baghdad. According to a security source, the explosion hit a culture ministry vehicle at 8:30 p.m. local time near al-Mulla Howeish mosque in the al-Jamea neighborhood. He further added that the blast injured the driver, who was taken to a nearby hospital for medical treatment. Meanwhile, the Iraqi army said they arrested six wanted men in two separate operations in the al-Harmat and al-Islah al-Zeraie regions in western Mosul. An al-Qaeda leader involved in an attack on three judges in Diyala province last month was reportedly arrested in the Baladruz region, southwest of the provincial capital, Baqouba. Posted by: Fred 2010-09-22 |
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