Eleven Policemen Killed in Mortar Attack in Baquba

[Barrett808]

Rebels killed 15 people across Iraq, including 11 policemen in an attack on a police station in the northeastern Iraqi town of Baquba Tuesday, police and interior ministry officials said.

Separately, a cabinet minister escaped an assassination bid Monday when gunmen ambushed her convoy, the minister said Tuesday.

Eleven policemen were killed and 15 others were wounded, including a child, when the police station in the restive town of Baquba was hit by mortar bombs, a police officer said. The attack was one of the deadliest in recent weeks against the country's security forces, a favourite target of rebels.

Two Iraqi policemen were killed in clashes with insurgents north of Najaf, the southern Shiite holy city.

In the northern city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, a businessman was shot dead by gunmen, police said.

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[maddezmom]

1. another horrible day

:mad:

[Roland99]

2. 11 brave Iraqis...dead for American capitalism

And the chickenhawks cry out louder for more blood.