Mosul, Iraq (Reuters)-Three suicide bomb attacks against checkpoints in Mosul, Northern Iraq, killing three police on Thursday night, police sources said.
The violence was part of a wave of attacks that fueled concerns about the return of violence between groups of people after the withdrawal of u.s. troops from Iraq by December 2011.
According to police sources, two of the three suspects crashed their car into the checkpoint.
On 14 February, which generally attacks aimed at security forces in northern Iraq, including Mosul, killing seven people.
There is no party that claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni guerrillas often launch such attacks in an attempt to destabilize the Government and encourage the return of sectarian violence like in 2005-2008.
Violence is the last of a wave of bombings and suicide attacks in the middle of a political crisis between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Government partners and protest marches over the past few weeks demanding his resignation.
Iraq is engulfed in political chaos and violence that killed thousands of people since u.s. forces completed a withdrawal from the country on 18 December 2011, leaving security responsibilities to Iraq troops.
In addition to having problems with the Kurds, Iraq's Government is also at odds with Sunni groups.
Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (Shiite) since December 2011 sought the arrest of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on charges of terrorism and attempting to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-absolute. Both are Sunni leaders.
The scholars warn that Maliki is encouraging sectarian divisions, and protestors gathered in the streets of Iraq by carrying banners in support of the Government and criticized Hashemi.
Iraq officials issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on December 19, 2011 after they gain recognition that connect him with terrorist activity.
Dozens of guards of Hashemi, a Sunni Arab leader, was arrested in a few weeks after the announcement, but it is not clear how many people were now on hold.
Hashemi, who denied the allegations, was hiding in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, and Kurdish leaders refused to pass them to Baghdad.
The Kurdish government even allowed the regional visit to Hashemi did Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, according to Reuters.
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