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| Iraq |
| Militants blow up policeman's house, three dead |
| 2010-08-03 |
| [Dawn] Suspected al-Qaida militants on Monday blew up the house of a policeman in a former stronghold of the Sunni insurgency west of Baghdad, killing him, his wife and 4-year-old daughter, hospital and police officials said. Separate attacks in Baghdad, including one targeting police, killed five people and wounded 15. Al-Qaida militants have been targeting policemen and members of anti-al-Qaida Sunni militias, shaking an increasingly fragile security situation in Iraq as politicians wrangle for months over forming a government. July was the deadliest month for Iraqis in two years, though violence remains down from 2008. The policeman's house was blown up before dawn in the Karmah district outside the city of Fallujah while the family was sleeping, police and hospital officials said. Seven other family members, including four of the policeman's sons, were wounded in the blast, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press. The police officials said they suspected al-Qaida militants were behind the attack. Also on Monday, police officials said a roadside bomb apparently targeting a police patrol missed and killed three civilians traveling in a car and wounded eight bystanders in the western part of Baghdad. Shortly after midnight, police and hospital officials said gunmen in a car opened fire at a cafe in Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr City, killing two people and wounding seven. Residents said the attack may have been the work of vigilantes angered by suspected drug use at the cafe. |
| Posted by:Fred |