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Iraq: suicide bomber kills 8, wounds 12 in Mosul
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN,Associated Press Writer AP - Wednesday, April 1
BAGHDAD - A suicide truck bomber plowed through a sandbag barrier to strike a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding 12, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
It was yet another sign that security forces have still not managed to stamp out extremists in Mosul, only three months before U.S. troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi cities.
The British military, meanwhile, transferred over coalition command of the oil-rich southern province of Basra to the United States on Tuesday. It was the latest step toward the full withdrawal of the remaining 4,000 British troops from Iraq by the end of May.
"As the Iraq people continue to stand on their own, we will support them and we will stand together shoulder-to-shoulder united against our common enemies and committed to peace and prosperity," the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, said at a ceremony to mark the Basra handover.
The bomber in Mosul broke through the first checkpoint on the station's perimeter, which was made of sandbags, then detonated his explosives when he reached the concrete wall a few yards (meters) away from the building, according to local police.
The attack occurred about 6:30 a.m. at the Mahta police station in central Mosul, police Maj. Jassim al-Jubouri said.
The U.S. military confirmed the attack, saying at least four Iraqi police officers and four civilians were killed while three Iraqi policemen and nine civilians were wounded.
However, Maj. Derrick Cheng, a spokesman for American forces in northern Iraq, said the truck bomber detonated his explosives after Iraqi police began firing at the truck when it took a sharp turn toward a train terminal.
Al-Jubouri said earlier that seven people were killed, including four policemen and three civilians and that most of the casualties were in the partly destroyed police station. Two hospital officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information, confirmed the casualty toll.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack. But vehicle bombings are the signature attacks of suspected Sunni insurgents who remain active in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad.
The No. 2 U.S. military commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, acknowledged earlier this month that problems in Mosul "can put us off track and cause violence to really re-ignite in a greater way."
Tuesday's bombing is the latest in a string of attacks in Iraq this month that has raised fears insurgents are trying to regroup as the U.S. prepares to leave Iraqi cities in three months and the entire country by the end of 2011.
U.S. forces have been handing over responsibility for American installations in preparation for the withdrawal. On Tuesday, it transferred control of one of its largest bases in Baghdad _ Forward Operating Base Rustamiyah.
The base was heavily rocketed during fierce fighting before violence ebbed about 18 months ago.
Underscoring the dangers still facing Iraqis, a rocket or mortar slammed into a residential area in the southeastern neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, wounding at least three Iraqi civilians, according to the U.S. military. Iraqi officials said six Iraqis were wounded in the attack.
Iraqi security forces have increasingly been targeted in attacks even as the number of slain Americans declines in Iraq, reflecting the changing nature of the fight, with the Iraqis increasingly taking the lead.
At least nine U.S. troop deaths were reported this month _ less than half from combat, according to an Associated Press tally.
The latest death occurred Tuesday, when a Marine died as the result of a non-combat incident in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
In all, at least 4,263 American service members have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003, the AP tally shows.
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