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Associated PressSuicide attack targets Iraqi police, kills 3By SELCAN HACAOGLU and SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writers
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BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle against the wall of a police station south of Mosul on Thursday, killing three policemen and wounding four others, authorities said.
It was the fifth suicide attack in Iraq this week and showed that insurgents can still carry out assaults despite security gains in urban areas of the country. Four suicide bombers killed 57 people in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday.
The Thursday attack occurred on a police station in the Qayara area about 30 miles south of Mosul, according to a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
A statement posted Wednesday on a Web site in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida front group, warned of a campaign of attacks in the Mosul area in retaliation for the killing of one of its "hero brothers."
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