A suicide bomber rammed his car into a group of policemen waiting to collect their salaries on Monday morning west of Ramadi, killing 12 people and wounding many others in the latest attack on Iraq’s security forces, officials at the Interior Ministry said. In Baghdad, two American soldiers with the First Cavalry Division were killed and three were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near their convoy, military officials said. South of the capital, near the Euphrates River, a volley of mortar fire struck a Marine base on Monday afternoon, wounding 13 marines and two civilians, military officials said. In Najaf, the Shiite holy city south of Baghdad, American and Iraqi forces arrested the deputy governor of the province along with 30 other Iraqis and charged them with plotting to kill the American-installed governor, police officials said. The deputy governor, Ali Shaibani, was also charged with having tried to kill the city’s police chief, Ghalab Jazari, officials said.Full Story
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