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Bomb Blast Kills Iraqi Special Police Commander
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?r=279&c=656730&l=1009&ctl=146294B:A6F02AD83191E160BD7EA9655FF319B19574F7DCC14957C0 Officials say
several other policemen, civilians wounded in explosion Iraqi
authorities say a bomb blast at a police station south of Baghdad has
killed a commander of a special police force and his aide.

Officials say several other policemen and civilians were wounded in
the explosion that ripped through the police station in the city of
Hillah early this Friday morning.

Iraqi security forces are frequent targets of attacks that have
increased since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan about
two weeks ago.

A U.S. military spokesman says he expects the violence to worsen
during the next two weeks, until the end of Ramadan.

Meanwhile, British army chief General Richard Dannatt said British
soldiers can not remain in Iraq "for years and years" and that a plan
to complete their mission needs to be worked out.

General Dannatt was conducting a series of media interviews Friday,
after his earlier remarks sparked an uproar in Britain.

On Thursday, Britain's Daily Mail newspaper quoted the general as
saying the security situation in Iraq is aggravated by the presence of
British troops and that they need to be withdrawn "sometime soon."

Britain has about seven-thousand troops in Iraq. And, British
commanders have been talking about reducing troop level by the middle
of next year.

British troops, who were deployed in four Iraqi provinces, have
already handed over security control of two provinces to Iraqi forces.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been a major supporter of U.S
policy in Iraq.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.