Iraqi Police officials informed that in bombings in a town west of Baghdad five people have been killed including three family members of a former pro-government Sunni fighter. Police officers also added that bombs planted around the house of Ahmed Jassim in the town of Khan Dhari went off, killing his wife and two sons and wounding the former Sons of Iraq militiaman and his daughter. Minutes later, a roadside bomb hit an Iraqi army patrol that was rushing to Jassim’s house, killing two soldiers and injuring four others.1

• 1. “Bomb attacks kill 5, wound 6: Iraqi officials,” Khaleej Times, April 12, 2011, at http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2...