Gunmen shot dead an Interior Ministry intelligence officer in a southern Baghdad neighbourhood today, and US troops clashed with insurgents west of the Iraqi capital, police and witnesses said.
Attackers opened fire on 1st Lt. Ghazi Hoshi as he was getting into his car to go to work in Baghdad's volatile Dora district, said a police spokesman.
In Ramadi, 70 miles west of the capital, insurgents fired more than 25 mortar rounds at US and Iraqi positions, including a group of American troops hunkered in an abandoned glass factory, witnesses said.
The attack sparked clashes in several parts of the city afterward, and American troops sealed off a southeastern district of Ramadi, said resident Hussein Molseh.
There was no word on casualties and US military officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Elsewhere, gunmen seriously wounded a police colonel and killed his driver in the northern city of Mosul, said Sayed Hussein. The colonel's bodyguard was also wounded in the attack, he said.
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