US soldier, Iraqi police chief killed as violence goes on in Iraq

[Judi Lynn]

US soldier, Iraqi police chief killed as violence goes on in Iraq
Associated Press
Fallujah, Iraq, September 15

In a region already shaken by the mistaken killing of eight Iraqi policemen by US forces in the worst friendly fire incident since major fighting ended, the police chief of this dangerous "Sunni Triangle" city was assassinated on Monday in an ambush by three gunmen wearing red and white Arab headdresses for masks.

In central Baghdad, a 1st Armoured Division soldier died of his wounds in a military field hospital after a predawn rocket-propelled attack on his patrol, the second US casualty in as many days. He was the 156th to die in Iraq since US President George W Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1. In heavy fighting before that date 138 soldiers were killed.

West of Baghdad, Col Khedeir Mekhalef Ali, police chief in al-Khaldiya, was attacked on the outskirts of the volatile western city of Fallujah as he was driving home. His driver and bodyguard were wounded in the attack, police said. Ali, a former Iraqi army officer, had been police chief for two months. (snip/...)

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