INSURGENTS gunned down a neighborhood police chief and set off a suicide bomb near a patrol guarding a holy shrine, part of a series of attacks yesterday targeting Iraqi security forces that left at least eight people dead, including four police officers.

Insurgents gunned down a neighbourhood police chief and set off a suicide bomb near a patrol guarding a holy shrine, part of a series of attacks today targeting Iraqi security forces and leaving at least eight people dead, including four police officers.

Iraqi security forces captured a suspected terrorist operating on Baghdad’s blood-soaked Haifa Street – cornering him today in a cupboard as he was disguising himself with his wife’s underwear.

SADDAM HUSSEIN scrapped all Iraqi weapons of mass destruction after the first Gulf War, his chief nuclear scientist has claimed.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry said today it had “no intention” of arresting former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi in the near future on counterfeiting charges, despite an arrest warrant issued by an Iraqi court.

A suicide bomber drove a minibus rigged with explosives at a police station south of Baghdad today, killing at least five people and wounding 25.

The US Air Force used some of the largest weapons in its inventory to attack targets in central Iraq as part of the escalating crackdown on suspected guerrilla strongholds.