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Insurgents Gun Down Chief of Central Baghdad Police Station
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Police say the gunmen fired on a vehicle in which police officers were
traveling to work Iraqi authorities say insurgents have shot dead at
least three policemen, including the chief of a central Baghdad police
station.

Police say the gunmen fired on a vehicle in which police officers were
traveling to work Thursday morning.

The attack came a day after a suicide truck bombing claimed by Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi's terror group killed three people near the
Agriculture Ministry and a Baghdad hotel used by Westerners.

Also Wednesday, Iraqi officials said they discovered the bodies of 41
people killed execution-style in two separate locations, in Qaim, near
the Syrian border, and near Latifiya, south of Baghdad.

In other incidents in Baghdad, Iraq's planning minister Mahdi
al-Hafidh escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen fired on his
car, killing two of his bodyguards. And, an American soldier was
killed in a roadside bomb blast.

Some information for this report provided by AP and Reuters.


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