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Insurgents Kill 15 Iraqi Police, National Guardsmen
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Attacks come as insurgents continue their violent campaign to derail
Iraq's national elections on January 30 Iraqi officials say at
least 15 Iraqi police and national guardsmen were killed in two
separate insurgents attacks Monday.

In the first attack, officials say insurgents targeted an Iraqi
National Guard checkpoint near the troubled city of Baquba, north of
Baghdad, killing at least eight guardsmen.

Shortly afterwards, at least seven Iraqi policemen were killed and 15
others wounded in a suicide car bomb explosion in front of a police
station in the northern town of Baiji.

The attacks come as insurgents continue their violent campaign to
derail Iraq's national elections on January 30.

The U.S. military said troops captured more than 40 suspected
insurgents in raids across Iraq Sunday. Most of the suspects were
captured in early morning operations in northern Iraq.

Some information for this report provided by AFP and Reuters.


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