Seven policemen and three civilians were killed in a drive-by shooting and other attacks in Iraq on Sunday, police and interior ministry officials said. "At 8:30 am (0530 GMT), gunmen riding in a car and carrying automatic weapons killed five policemen guarding a checkpoint, before fleeing," said a police officer in the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, west of Baghdad.
He said the gunmen struck in the desert town of Rutbah, on the main highway leading from Baghdad towards Amman and Damascus.
Anbar province was an al Qaeda stronghold until 2008 when US commanders began recruiting Sunni Arab tribesmen and former insurgents to form militias which turned the tide against the jihadists. Another policemen was killed by a gunman using a silencer in west Baghdad.
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