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| Suicide bomber kills Iraqi anti-corruption police officer in Mosul |
| 2005-03-20 |
| An al Qaeda-linked suicide bomber assassinated the top anti-corruption police officer in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, and U.S. troops said they killed 24 insurgents in a battle on the outskirts of Baghdad. The suicide bomber, wearing an explosive vest, walked into the offices of the Mosul police anti-corruption department and blew himself up, killing department head Brigadier Walid Kashmoula, the U.S. military said. Another Iraqi was wounded. Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said it had killed "the apostate Walid Kashmoula who is the top American agent" in the area. "This will be the fate of those who stand by the polytheists," al Qaeda Organization for Holy War in Iraq said in a statement posted on an Islamist Web site. During Kashmoula's funeral on Sunday afternoon, gunmen fired on the procession following his coffin, killing two people and wounding at least 14 others, police said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |