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                  Gunmen Kill Iraqi Police Officer and Family

   by VOA News

   Iraqi authorities say gunmen have broken into the home of an
   anti-terrorism police officer in the Baghdad suburbs, killing him and
   his family.
   Officials say the attackers gunned down an administrator for the
   al-Rasheed district Saturday, and also killed the police captain's wife
   and their two children.
   The gunmen also killed at least one security officer nearby.
   Elsewhere in Iraq Saturday, police say gunmen killed a Sunni cleric
   near his home in the southern port city of Basra.
   On Friday, a series of bomb attacks targeted Sunnis in Iraq, killing 70
   people and increasing fears of renewed sectarian conflict.
   The deadliest blast struck Sunni worshippers who were leaving a mosque
   in Baquba, just north of Baghdad. It was followed by a second explosion
   as people gathered to help the wounded. At least 41 people were killed
   in the twin bombings.
   Later in the day, a roadside bomb exploded during a Sunni funeral
   procession in Madain, south of Baghdad, killing eight people.
   In Baghdad, a bomb went off in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of
   Amariyah, killing at least 19 people.
   And a bomb went off in a cafe in the city of Fallujah, killing two
   people.
   Friday's attacks follow a wave of bombings in Iraq this week that left
   more than 100 people dead.
   Prime Minister Nouri-al-Maliki is blaming the deaths on rising
   sectarian violence that has plagued the country since security forces
   raided a Sunni protest camp near Kirkuk last month.
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