Al-Qaida kills Iraqi police commander on 6th try
BAGHDAD – Three al-Qaida suicide bombers attacked a police building in Mosul on Wednesday, leveling the building and killing the city's top commander, who had escaped at least five previous assassination attempts, officials said. The officer, Lt. Col. Shamil al-Jabouri, had relentlessly pursued al-Qaida in the tense northern city that was a former stronghold of the militants and the group claimed responsibility for killing him while he slept on a couch. Rescuers worked frantically to clear the rubble of the collapsed building but found no others dead, probably because the attack was early, before most people had arrived for work. Just ten days ago, al-Jabouri led a raid that ended in the death of the top al-Qaida figure in Mosul, his colleagues said. And two months ago he had been instrumental in stopping a gang that had been targeting jewelry stores in the city — robberies that are frequently ways for terror groups to refill their coffers. The successful attack on such a high...