Iraq Security Update

Yeah, Iraq, you remember, don't you? That other country where we were fighting a war for a few years?

RAMADI - A suicide car bomber targeting a police headquarters killed at least three people, including a policeman, and wounded three in western Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.


MOSUL - Unknown gunmen in a car fired on an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing two soldiers, in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


MOSUL - Unknown gunmen shot dead two policemen at a checkpoint in central Mosul, police said.


BAGHDAD - Two mortar rounds landed in or near a complex that used to house Saddam Hussein's central security directorate in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. Another source said the complex was now used as a U.S. base. No casualties were reported.


BAGHDAD - Two military personnel working in the Iraqi Defence Ministry were shot dead by gunmen in a speeding car in northern Baghdad, police said.


BAGHDAD - A police officer assigned to the Interior Ministry and a civilian employee of the ministry were wounded by unknown gunmen as they sat in a car in Baghdad, police said.


BAGHDAD - Two rockets or mortar rounds landed in Baghdad's Green Zone government and diplomatic neighbourhood, wounding five people, police said.


BAGHDAD - Unknown gunmen in a car shot dead Thamer Kamel, a university professor working in the Ministry of Higher Education, while he sat in his vehicle in northern Baghdad, police said.

By: Brant