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al-Qaida in Iraq threaten diplomats
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-04 20:35
Sunni-led insurgents killed six Iraqi police at a
checkpoint Friday and fired a mortar round that struck a home outside the
capital, killing a child, as Shiites began celebrating a major Muslim holiday.
Al-Qaida in Iraq threatened more attacks on diplomats here.
Iraqi policemen touch the coffin of a comrade
who died during an attack at a police checkpoint in Buhriz, 55 kilometers
(35 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 4, 2005. Insurgents fired
mortar rounds, then arrived at the scene in eight cars and began a gun
battle by opening fire on the policemen, a police officer said. At least
six policemen were killed and 10 wounded. [AP] |
Also Friday, the U.S. military said it had killed five senior al-Qaida in
Iraq figures during an airstrike last Saturday in Husaybah near the Syrian
border. The five, including at least one North African, were responsible for
bombings against U.S. and Iraqi forces, the announcement said.
Friday's worst attack by insurgents occurred at an Iraqi police checkpoint in
Buhriz, 35 miles north of Baghdad.
The insurgents fired mortar rounds, then arrived in eight cars and opened
fire, a police officer said. At least six policemen were killed and 10 wounded
in the ensuing gunbattle, and it was not immediately known if any militants were
hurt, the officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity out of concern for
his own safety.
On the outskirts of Baghdad, near the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib detention center,
insurgents fired a mortar round that missed an American base but hit a village
home, killing a child and wounding the mother and another child, said police 1st
Lt. Ahmed Ali.
Suspected insurgents also shot and killed Tarijk Hasan, a
former colonel in the Iraqi air force, as he drove through Baghdad on Thursday,
said police Capt. Talib Thamir.
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