Clash kills nine policemen in northern Iraq

Mosul, Irak (ANTARA News) - Bentrokan di Irak utara menewaskan sembilan polisi dan empat orang bersenjata pada Jumat, sementara serangan lainnya, termasuk bom mobil di dekat satu masjid Sunni, menewaskan sedikitnya enam orang tewas lebih, kata para pejabat.

AFP melaporkan mortir ditembakkan di pos-pos pemeriksaan dalam pertempuran sengit yang juga meninggalkan tujuh polisi terluka, kata polisi dan dokter.

Di Rashidiyah, utara Baghdad, bom mobil meledak saat para jamaah meninggalkan Shalat Jumat di Masjid Al-Ghufran, menewaskan sedikitnya lima orang dan melukai 30 lainnya, kata para pejabat.

Sebuah bom pinggir jalan menewaskan seorang kapten polisi di Baiji, utara ibu kota.

Di Al-Amil Baghdad selatan, sebuah "bom lengket" magnit meledak dan melukai seorang kapten polisi, sementara ledakan bom pinggir jalan melukai tiga polisi lainnya di Taji, utara ibu kota, kata berbagai sumber.

Kekerasan itu terjadi sehari setelah PBB mengatakan April adalah bulan paling mematikan bagi Irak dalam hampir lima tahun.

Gelombang kerusuhan dimulai pada 23 April ketika pasukan keamanan mengusir pengunjuk rasa Sunni anti-pemerintah di dekat kota Hawijah di Irak utara, memicu bentrokan yang menewaskan 53 orang.

Puluhan lainnya tewas dalam kerusuhan berikutnya, termasuk dalam serangan balas dendam yang menargetkan pasukan keamanan, meningkatkan kekhawatiran kembalinya konflik sektarian habis-habisan yang telah menewaskan puluhan ribu jiwa dari 2006 sampai 2008.

Sementara kekerasan telah turun dari puncaknya selama konflik sektarian pada 2006 dan 2007, serangan masih sering terjadi, dan telah menewaskan lebih dari 200 orang setiap bulan sepanjang tahun ini, demikian laporan AFP.

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Suicide bombing kills three policemen in Mosul, Iraq

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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