Soldier killed, 3 wounded by Iraqi policemen

Soldier killed, 3 wounded by Iraqi policemen

By Brian Murphy - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Feb 24, 2009 15:30:37 EST

BAGHDAD — Two Iraqi policemen opened fire Tuesday during a U.S. military inspection visit in northern Iraq, killing one American soldier and an interpreter in an attack that deepened worries of possible infiltration of security forces battling insurgents in their last major base.

The shooting at a police outpost in central Mosul — which left three other U.S. soldiers wounded — was the fourth attack in the region since late 2007 with suspected links to Iraqi security units, which have struggled to uproot al-Qaida in Iraq from strongholds in Iraq’s third-largest city.

Any serious breaches in Iraqi force could be a particular blow in the Mosul region — where the U.S. military is light and commanders have been generally unable to spawn the type of tribal militia uprisings that helped break insurgent control in other areas of Iraq.
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