Nine people killed and many wounded in Ramadi; Suicide bomber killed police commander in Mosul
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    • According to Ramadi police sources, seven people were killed and at least 51 wounded when a car bomb detonated near the provincial headquarters in the heart of Ramadi, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad which was followed by a suicide bombing 15 minutes later. Muhanad Taha, a health department media official in Ramadi, put the toll at nine dead, including four policemen, and 49 wounded, among them five women and four children. This is third time in 2010 when the headquarters of the Anbar provincial government have been targeted and a day after a new police chief for the province in Western Iraq took up his charge.1

    In another development, two suicide bombers attacked a police compound in the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing a commander. Police said the commander was asleep in his ground-floor office when one of the attackers entered early in the morning and blew himself up. The other bomber set off his device shortly afterwards. A police source told news agency that the commander “was known to be active in pursuing al-Qaeda members in Mosul and for this reason he was targeted.” Even militants had tried to kill him several times before.2

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