SIX police officers were killed and 15 wounded in car bomb attacks on Iraq’s security services, as political factions wrangled over putting together a government.

Iraqi security forces have arrested a top lieutenant of al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq who was behind 75% of car bombings in Baghdad, the prime minister’s office said today.

An al-Qaida suicide driver detonated a car bomb at a guard post outside the Iraqi prime minister’s party headquarters in Baghdad today, injuring at least 10 people.