Senior Iraqi Police Officer Assassinated In Baghdad

Police say Colonel Yassin Ibrahim Jawad was heading to work when masked gunmen attacked his car in Baghdad's neighborhood of Al-Baya.

Elsewhere in Iraq, the U.S. military says two insurgents with links to Jordanian-born militant Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi were seized during a sweep earlier this month in Al-Ramadi. The insurgents were said to be leaders of a cell blamed for the killing of 11 Iraqi National Guardsmen and for several lethal bomb attacks in recent months.

Meanwhile, at least three Iraqis were killed in a car bombing between the Shi'a holy cities of Al-Najaf and Karbala. Officials say the bomb appeared to have been aimed at a U.S. military convoy, which escaped unharmed.

(compiled from wire reports)

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