Seven Iraqi Police Killed in Attacks

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Seven Iraqi Police Killed in Attacks

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Seven Iraqi policemen died in a pair of attacks west of Baghdad, officials said Monday, and a senior Iraqi official blamed al-Qaida for many of the suicide bombings around the country in recent weeks.



In the north, military divers searched the muddy waters of the Tigris River for three missing U.S. soldiers, including two pilots of an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter that crashed Sunday in Mosul during rescue operations after a patrol boat capsized.


It was the fifth U.S. helicopter lost in Iraq (news - web sites) this month — three from hostile fire.


The Iraqi policemen were killed late Sunday in two separate attacks at checkpoints around the city of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad in the Sunni Triangle, a center of resistance to the U.S.-run occupation. Iraqi police who reported the attacks made no mention of any insurgent casualties


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