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Tribal leader's son killed, fresh attacks on Iraqi police (Roundup)
Aug 26, 2010, 16:08 GMT
Baghdad - Gunmen killed the son of a prominent tribal leader in a pre-dawn attack on Thursday as fresh blasts targeted police stations, killing four officers, Iraqi security sources said.
A roadside bomb and an assault on a police checkpoint left four security officials dead in Mosul, 400 kilometres north of Baghdad. Also, a car bomb exploded near members of the Turkmen ethnic minority in the city, injuring nine people.
In Samara, some 120 kilometres north of the capital, five policemen were injured in two separate blasts targeting police patrols. One blast was near a Muslim Shiite shrine.
Just west of Baghdad, armed men raided the house of Abdullah Hatem Dara, son of a leader of the prominent al-Bu Hamdan tribe in Abu Ghraib, killing him before fleeing.
The latest attacks followed a wave of explosions on Wednesday targeting police forces across 10 Iraqi cities that killed 64 people.
Next week, the United States military is set to mark the official end of combat operations and a move to a new phase which will focus on counter-terrorism, special operations and training.
Troop levels stand at their lowest since the 2003 invasion, with less than 50,000 US soldiers in Iraq.
Washington says the Iraqi forces are capable of offering protection, though parliamentarians in Baghdad have raised concerns over the training and capacity of the police and military.
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