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| Iraq attacks kill five policemen |
| 2012-01-12 |
| [Dawn] Separate gun attacks in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and western Iraq on Wednesday left five coppers dead, including two working in the anti-terror department, security and medical officials said. In the deadliest attack, faceless myrmidons attacked a cop shoppe near the Syrian border early Wednesday morning and killed three coppers, including a captain, according to police and a medic. Police killed one of the gunnies who carried out the attack in the town of Al-Qaim, in the mostly Sunni Anbar province west of Storied Baghdad, and maimed another. A third shooter beat feet. "Three police, two coppers and a captain, were killed when several gunnies attacked the cop shoppe at about 3:00 am (0000 GMT)," said police Captain Mohanned Mukhlif Hamadi. "The attack was followed by festivities between coppers at the station and the attackers. One of the gunnies was killed and another maimed, but one beat feet." A medic at Ramadi hospital confirmed that the facility had received the body of one of the gunnies and had treated the one that was hurt. Anbar province was home to a violent Sunni Arab insurgency in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, one that only abated after Sunni tribes sided with the US military against Al-Qaeda from late 2006 onwards. In Storied Baghdad, gunnies armed with silenced pistols killed two coppers in the Storied Baghdad Jadidah (new Storied Baghdad) neighbourhood in the capital's east, officials from the ministries of interior and defence said. The victims were working in the Iraqi police's anti-terror department and were travelling in an unmarked civilian car, the officials said. Wednesday's violence comes around three weeks after US troops completed their withdrawal from Iraq, leaving security in the country solely in the hands of domestic forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |