A series of deadly suicide bomb attacks launched another day of violence in Iraq on Thursday as a fierce debate over how to prosecute the war gripped London and Washington. Six suicide bombers including one in a fuel truck blew themselves up near police stations and U.S.
forces in the Iraqi city of Mosul in violence that killed at least 20 people. Another car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk killed at least eight people and wounded 70 people in an attack aimed at an Iraqi army patrol in a crowded market area. U.
S. Maj.-Gen.
William Caldwell said the Mosul attacks by suicide bombers in vehicles were aimed at three Iraqi police stations and two U.S. patrols in the city, which is a flashpoint of insurgent activity north of Baghdad The northern city of Mosul shuddered under apparently coordinated attacks coming every 20 minutes, including several suicide car bombs, mortar fire and small arms assaults against coalition forces and Iraqi police.
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