http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070822203348;_ylt=AoC5BZ1fUwUa7.wdITmc12UUewgF......A string of attacks hit across northern Iraq.
The deadliest strike blasted a police station in a residential area in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, according to police and hospital officials.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information, said 25 policemen and 20 civilians were killed. The officials also said 57 civilians and 23 officers were wounded.
Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said the attack bore all the hallmarks of al-Qaida in Iraq, which appears to be trying to retrench in parts of northern Iraq.
"It appears to be something that is consistent with an al-Qaida-related attack," he told AP Radio in an interview.
Later Wednesday, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle set off a blast near four police vehicles parked near grocery stores in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, killing six people and wounding 35 others, police said.
The U.S. military said a twin vehicle bombing at a joint U.S.-Iraqi outpost in north Baghdad killed four Iraqi soldiers and wounded 11 Americans, in the 1st Cavalry Division. Four Iraqi soldiers also were wounded.
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