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USA Today
September 15, 2008
Pg. 11
By Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Three roadside bombs planted in succession struck a police convoy in one of Iraq's most dangerous provinces Sunday, killing five policemen.
The bombs planted along a main thoroughfare targeted a police convoy in Jalawla, 60 miles north of Baghdad, said Ibrahim Bajilan, head of the provincial council of Diyala.
The province, northeast of Baghdad and bordering Iran, remains a major security challenge for the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, even as violence drops in other parts of the country.
Over the weekend, a bomb killed the leader of a U.S.-backed, Sunni armed group in the al-Furat neighborhood of Baghdad.
The bomb exploded in the car of Fuad Ali Hussein, killing him as well as his deputy and two bodyguards. Hussein was head of a neighborhood awakening council — a term describing Sunni Arab insurgents and tribesmen who turned against al-Qaeda and formed alliances with the U.S.
In political developments, Iraq's parliament voted to lift the immunity of a Sunni Arab lawmaker who visited Israel to attend a counterterrorism conference this month. Mithal al-Alusi was also barred from traveling outside Iraq or attending parliamentary sessions.
Osama al-Nujeifi, a Sunni Arab lawmaker, and Shiite Arab lawmaker Haider al-Ibadi said al-Alusi's trip was illegal and a humiliation for Iraqis who see Israel as an enemy.
Also Sunday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki formed a committee to investigate the killing of four employees of the Iraqi television network Al-Sharqiya as they filmed an episode on the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which began two weeks ago.
The employees of the station were abducted and killed Saturday in the northern city of Mosul. They included the head of the station's office in Mosul, two cameramen and a driver.
Al-Maliki and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker condemned the killings.
September 15, 2008
Pg. 11
By Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Three roadside bombs planted in succession struck a police convoy in one of Iraq's most dangerous provinces Sunday, killing five policemen.
The bombs planted along a main thoroughfare targeted a police convoy in Jalawla, 60 miles north of Baghdad, said Ibrahim Bajilan, head of the provincial council of Diyala.
The province, northeast of Baghdad and bordering Iran, remains a major security challenge for the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, even as violence drops in other parts of the country.
Over the weekend, a bomb killed the leader of a U.S.-backed, Sunni armed group in the al-Furat neighborhood of Baghdad.
The bomb exploded in the car of Fuad Ali Hussein, killing him as well as his deputy and two bodyguards. Hussein was head of a neighborhood awakening council — a term describing Sunni Arab insurgents and tribesmen who turned against al-Qaeda and formed alliances with the U.S.
In political developments, Iraq's parliament voted to lift the immunity of a Sunni Arab lawmaker who visited Israel to attend a counterterrorism conference this month. Mithal al-Alusi was also barred from traveling outside Iraq or attending parliamentary sessions.
Osama al-Nujeifi, a Sunni Arab lawmaker, and Shiite Arab lawmaker Haider al-Ibadi said al-Alusi's trip was illegal and a humiliation for Iraqis who see Israel as an enemy.
Also Sunday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki formed a committee to investigate the killing of four employees of the Iraqi television network Al-Sharqiya as they filmed an episode on the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which began two weeks ago.
The employees of the station were abducted and killed Saturday in the northern city of Mosul. They included the head of the station's office in Mosul, two cameramen and a driver.
Al-Maliki and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker condemned the killings.