Security officer killed as strikes against Iraqis continue to mount

A SERIES of roadside attacks in Iraq killed a local security officer and wounded at least 13 other people yesterday as insurgents mounted fresh strikes against Iraqis seen as collaborating with US forces.

The attacks come a day after thousands of Shi’ite Muslims protested in the south to demand the US-appointed provincial governor’s resignation.

The protest by some 10,000 people in the town of Nasiriyah was the latest sign of the growing unrest of Iraq’s majority Shi’ites who were repressed for decades by Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominated regime.