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Gunmen, bombs kill 30 in assaults across Iraq
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-05-10 20:05
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 Residents gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Tikrit, 175 km (109 miles) north of Baghdad, May 7, 2010. [Agencies] |
Top Leaders Killed
At the same time, US and Iraqi military forces have scored several victories against al Qaeda, including the killing of the organisation's two leaders in Iraq in April.
But while weakened, officials say al Qaeda in Iraq and affiliated Sunni Islamist groups remain dangerous, and they have said they will try to stage significant attacks in order to prove to their followers that they are still around.
The car bomb in Tarmiya targeted the convoy of the local mayor, officials said.
In the former al Qaeda stronghold of Anbar province, five bombs went off at dawn outside the homes of police officers, killing two people in the city of Falluja and two in a village 20 km (12 miles) east of Falluja, police said.
The homes of police officers have been bombed repeatedly in Anbar, Iraq's Sunni heartland, in recent weeks.
In the volatile northern city of Mosul, where al Qaeda continues to exploit tensions between Iraq's majority Arabs and minority Kurds, at least two Kurdish peshmerga fighters were killed when a suicide bomber in a car drove into a checkpoint manned by US, Iraqi and Kurdish forces, police said.
Around 100 people were wounded across the country.
