Security incidents in Iraq, Aug 10 (Mosul isn't 'peaceful' anymore)

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MOU024849.htm

BAIJI - Four U.S. soldiers were killed and six wounded late on Tuesday in an attack on a patrol near the northern oil town of Baiji, 180 km (115 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement on Wednesday. Police said two Humvee patrol vehicles and a larger armoured vehicle were wrecked.

* MOSUL - Fifteen people were killed in separate incidents over the past 24 hours in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. A police source said that among the killed were two policemen who were gunned down while heading to work.

* BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed six people and wounded 14 when he drove a car at a police patrol in the Ghazaliya district of western Baghdad, police and Interior Ministry sources said. Two of the dead and two of the wounded were policemen.

BAGHDAD - A mortar bomb exploded at an intersection in the capital's northern district of Aadhamiya, killing a traffic policeman and wounding six civilians, a police source said. (Reporting by Amer Amery in Tikrit, Maher al-Thanoon in Mosul, Faris al-Mehdawi in Baquba and Alastair Macdonald in Baghdad)