Scores killed in attacks on Iraqi police

At least 22 Iraqis were killed, most of them were members of the Iraqi police, and other 60 injured in a series of attacks that targeted the Iraqi and American forces in Baghdad and in the north.

Al-Qaida organization in Iraq claimed responsibility in a statement on the Internet for three of these attacks, stressing it killed 11 members of the Iraqi police in Baghdad.

In the aviation square in the center of Baghdad, one attack by a booby trapped car targeted an American convoy and resulted in killing three Iraqis and wounding other 42 while sources in the Iraqi ministry of the interior talked about the killing of one American soldier and injuring other 4 of his colleagues.

In al-Ghadir, east of the capital, two army officers were killed by gunmen targeting a civilian car for the ministry of the interior.

Another armed attack targeted a police vehicle in the New Baghdad area resulted in killing four members of the police and injuring a fifth.

One officer in the Iraqi police was killed and his driver was injured in an armed attack at his car in al-Doura area in Baghdad.

In al-Adel area, gunmen attacked one Iraqi vehicle and this resulted in killing a policeman and injuring four of his colleagues. In al-Za'faraneyah area, gunmen killed a policeman working at the "major crimes center." The attacks against the Iraqi forces expanded outside Baghdad area where one policeman was killed and another injured by unidentified gunmen in the center of Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad.

In Samera, 120 km north of Baghdad, one officer in the Iraqi army spoke of the killing of four Iraqi soldiers in bomb explosions that targeted a joint procession for the American and Iraqi army.

In al-Doura, one Iraqi businessman was killed together with his wife by unidentified gunmen on the main road east of the city. The body of one policeman was found in the same area.