Police intelligence official killed

BAGHDAD, Iraq A roadside bomb killed a provincial intelligence chief in southern Iraq early Wednesday, one of four police officers killed in attacks around the country. The military reported ten U.S. troops killed in bombings and combat a day earlier, raising to 69 the number of U.S. troops killed in October.

The Interior Ministry, meanwhile, announced the arrest of 100 suspected insurgents near Ramadi, a center of Sunni Arab opposition to the U.S. forces in the country and their Iraqi government allies.

Most of those fighters were affiliated with al-Qaida in Iraq, a group behind many of the country's worst bombings, said Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, a spokesman for the ministry, which commands the police force. Many were foreign nationals from other Arab nations, Khalaf said.

Ali Qassim al-Tamimi, head of intelligence for the Maysan provincial police force was killed along with four bodyguards by a bomb planted on the main highway between the cities of Amarah and Basra, Maysan police Capt. Hussein Karim said.

Elsewhere, policeman Hatam Karim was shot dead by unknown gunmen in front of his house in Suwayrah, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Baghdad, while preparing to leave for work, police Lt. Mohammed al-Shimmari said. Lt. Amir Sattar Jibouri of the Inter-City Roads Protection Force, was killed in a similar attack at about the same time in Hillah.

Another unidentified officer from the special investigations unit was killed in western Baghdad by unknown assailants, police Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said.

Attackers also targeted a police patrol in the northern city of Mosul, first firing on one officer then detonating a car bomb once reinforcements arrived, said Capt. Ahmed Khalid of the city police operations department. He said there were no casualties.

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