Al Qaeda claims attack on Iraqi police checkpoint
Insurgents killed five Iraqi policemen and five soldiers in separate attacks north of Baghdad on Monday, the police and army said. Al Qaeda wing in Iraq claimed responsibility for a carefully-planned attack on a police checkpoint north of the Iraqi capital in which at least five police officers were killed and four wounded. Police said the attackers jumped out of a minibus in the early morning and began firing mortar rounds and rocket propelled grenades at the police checkpoint near a base for Interior Ministry commandos in Buhriz, about 60 km (37 miles) from Baghdad.Full Story