Nine Killed in Truck Bomb Blast in Southwest Baghdad; Filipino Soldiers Leave Iraq

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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide bomber in a fuel truck blew it up early Monday at a police station in southwest Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding about 60 as the inferno engulfed civilians and officers waiting for their daily assignments, officials and witnesses said.

Later, the Defense Ministry said militants killed Essam al- Dijaili, the head of the military's supply department, in a drive- by shooting as he walked into his house in Baghdad.

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Nine Killed in Truck Bomb Blast in Southwest Baghdad; Filipino Soldiers Leave Iraq

The morning blast outside the police station in the Seidiyeh neighborhood, the latest in a string of deadly attacks on police, came as officers gathered to receive their daily assignments. Insurgents throughout Iraq have used car bombs roadside bombs and other weapons to target police, whom they view as collaborators with U.S. forces.

The explosi...

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