http://www.boston.com/dailynews/069/world/Gunmen_kill_two_police_chiefs_:.shtmlBAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Gunmen killed two district police chiefs and two others Iraqis in attacks in Baghdad on Thursday, the latest in a steady wave of insurgent strikes against the nation's security forces.
Assailants in two cars opened fire on a pickup truck carrying Col. Ahmed Abeis, the head of Salihiyah police in western Baghdad, killing him, his driver and a guard, police Col. Khazim Abbas said.
The white truck could be seen on the side of a road in Baghdad's Saidiyah neighborhood, its windows shattered and bullet-ridden. Weeping, a brother of Abeis picked up an empty shoe from the back of the blood-smeared vehicle.
In an Internet statement, a group claiming to be Al-Qaida in Iraq took responsibility for an attack in the same area on ''an intelligence officer who used to investigate the Mujahedeen and hurt them.'' The authenticity of the statement could not be verified.
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