bombs in Iraq kill six, injure 26
Baghdad - At least six people were killed and 26 injured on Sunday in three separate suicide attacks in Iraq, police sources said.
A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up in the middle of an anti-Israeli demonstration in the northern city of Mosul, killing two other people and injuring 16.
The demonstration was against the Israeli aistrikes on Gaza, which left around 300 dead. Most of the demonstrators were from the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP).
In the city of Falluja, a suicide bomber in a car rammed a police convoy, killing one policeman and injuring six, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported. Later, another car bomb
ripped through a police convoy, killing two officers and injuring four, VOI said.
Falluja is one of the major cities in Sunni-dominant Anbar province. Although US and Iraqi forces had pacified Anbar in September, it still witnesses occasional bombings
and attacks by insurgents.
In other news, Iraq's Presidential Council approved a law that will govern the pullout of non-US troops from Iraq, according to a statement by the council.
The council, comprised of Iraq's president and his two deputies, approved the law that will allow non-US forces to remain in the country beyond December 31, when the old
UN mandate permitting the presence of foreign troops in the country expires.
The Iraqi parliament had approved the law on Tuesday.
The law allows non-US troops to stay until July 2009. This covers the 4,000 British troops in the country, as well as smaller forces from countries including Australia,
Romania and El Salvador.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said during a visit to Iraq this month that he wanted to withdraw British troops by mid-2009.
The United States signed an agreement with Iraq this year that would allow US troops to stay until 2011. dpa