Gunmen Kill Five Police at Iraq Checkpoint

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen shot and killed five police officers at a checkpoint north of Baghdad on Monday, and a suicide car bomber slammed into a police patrol in the capital, leaving three more dead, police and hospital officials said.

The car bomb was one of five that insurgents set off in the capital on Monday. At least two people were killed and 15 injured by the other four bombs, officials said.

Gunmen killed five officers and wounded four at a police checkpoint 30 miles north of Baghdad, a morgue official in Baqouba said.

Gunmen in Baghdad killed a civilian who was driving his two children to school, a hospital official said. A professor was shot and killed by insurgents in western Baghdad, police said.

and things have gotten so much better there.:sarcasm: