[An Nahar] Bombs and shootings in Iraq killed three people, including two coppers, and maimed nine others on Wednesday, security and medical officials said.In the former krazed killer bastion of Fallujah,
...
the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called
Center of Prosperityor
a really nice place to raise your kids...
in Anbar province west of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, gunnies on a cycle of violence killed a policeman when they opened fire on a checkpoint in the center of the city, police Colonel Adil Mukhlaf said.
And just west of Fallujah, a roadside kaboom detonated near a police patrol in the town of Khalidiyah, killing a policeman and wounding another, according to a police officer and a doctor.
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
in the disputed ethnically mixed northern province of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a "sticky bomb" attached to a car killed one person and maimed another in the town of Hawija, police and a doctor said.
Bomb attacks in towns of mostly Sunni towns of Ramadi and Baquba, in western Anbar and central Diyala provinces, maimed seven people, according to police and medical officials.
Violence in Iraq has declined dramatically since its peak in 2006-2007, but attacks remain common, especially in Anbar and Diyala. A total of 132 Iraqis were killed in violence in May, according to official figures.