Insurgents bombed a house belonging to two policemen and their families in central Iraq early on Thursday,killing 8 persons inside in the latest brazen attack since the US troop withdrawal,officials said. The house where the two policemen brothers lived was located in the Hamia area,about 50 kilometres south of Baghdad,a police officer said. It was levelled when insurgents detonated bombs they had planted around it at 1:00 am. Both policemen,two infants and four women were among the dead,he added. Also Thursday,a motorcycle bomb missed a passing police patrol in the northern city of Kirkuk,but killed two civilians and wounded five others,the citys police commander Brig Gen Sarhad Qadir said. In an audio message aired on Wednesday,a spokesman for al-Qaedas Islamic State of Iraq who identified himself as Abu Mohammed al-Adnani said that even as the US troops left Iraq,our army still exists and is increasing day after the other. Al-Adnani claimed the US pulled its troops out of Iraq because its economy is collapsing and it needed to save money. Meanwhile,he said his holy warriors,or the mujahideen have the lead and can attack and appear whenever we want to.
