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26 army recruits, police killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD — Insurgents killed 26 people in a string of attacks across Iraq Thursday, capping a bloody week that has left some 250 dead since the country's new leaders unveiled the first democratically-elected government in half a century.
Baghdad woke up again to a spate of insurgent attacks targeting the country's embattled security forces, a day after a suicide bomber killed 46 people at a police recruiting centre in the Kurdish northern city of Arbil.
This time, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruiting post at the former Muthanna airport in the center of Baghdad, killing 14 and wounding 15, an interior ministry official said.
Insurgents in southern and eastern Baghdad neighbourhoods rained gunfire on police vehicles in two separate attacks, killing eight policemen and setting several patrol cars ablaze.
Four Iraqi commandos from the crack "Lightning Brigade" were killed and five wounded late in the day, when a suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives next to their patrol in Mosul in northern Iraq, police said.
A guard was also killed in a car bomb attack against the home of a senior defence ministry official.
As Iraq's fledgling security forces were being targeted across the country, the government struck back, announcing the arrest of a former official of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath party in Mosul on suspicion of masterminding a string of insurgent attacks.
---God if this be freedom, let us never know slavery.---
26 army recruits, police killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD — Insurgents killed 26 people in a string of attacks across Iraq Thursday, capping a bloody week that has left some 250 dead since the country's new leaders unveiled the first democratically-elected government in half a century.
Baghdad woke up again to a spate of insurgent attacks targeting the country's embattled security forces, a day after a suicide bomber killed 46 people at a police recruiting centre in the Kurdish northern city of Arbil.
This time, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruiting post at the former Muthanna airport in the center of Baghdad, killing 14 and wounding 15, an interior ministry official said.
Insurgents in southern and eastern Baghdad neighbourhoods rained gunfire on police vehicles in two separate attacks, killing eight policemen and setting several patrol cars ablaze.
Four Iraqi commandos from the crack "Lightning Brigade" were killed and five wounded late in the day, when a suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives next to their patrol in Mosul in northern Iraq, police said.
A guard was also killed in a car bomb attack against the home of a senior defence ministry official.
As Iraq's fledgling security forces were being targeted across the country, the government struck back, announcing the arrest of a former official of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath party in Mosul on suspicion of masterminding a string of insurgent attacks.
---God if this be freedom, let us never know slavery.---
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