Bombings target Iraqi police

BAGHDAD — Five explosions targeting local police shook the capital within the span of one hour Wednesday morning, two days after Iraq's leaders requested that at least 5,000 U.S. military trainers remain into 2012 to advise the country's fledgling security forces.

The bombs killed at least 22 people and injured more than 70, many of them police officers, in attacks across the city. It was the bloodiest day in Baghdad since Aug. 28, when a suicide bomber killed 28 and injured 30 at the city's largest Sunni mosque.

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Joby Warrick 12 Oct, 2011

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