Senior Iraqi policeman killed

The director of the police anti-corruption department in the Iraqi city of Mosul was assassinated by a suicide bomber yesterday, and gunmen later opened fire on his funeral procession, killing two mourners. The US military said the bomber detonated...

The director of the police anti-corruption department in the Iraqi city of Mosul was assassinated by a suicide bomber yesterday, and gunmen later opened fire on his funeral procession, killing two mourners.

The US military said the bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body in the building where Brigadier Walid Kashmoula worked. Both were killed and one person was wounded.

Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said it had assassinated "the apostate Walid Kashmoula who is the top American agent" in the area.

"This will be the fate of those who stand by the polytheists," al Qaeda Organisation for Holy War in Iraq said in a statement posted on an Islamist website.

In the afternoon, insurgents fired on Mr Kashmoula's funeral procession, killing two people and wounding at least 14, some seriously, hospital officials said.

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