Second car bomb kills 2 prison guards in volatile Ninewa

NINEWA/IraqiNews.com Two security guards killed by a car bomb, the second of its type, in Mosul on Sunday, a police source said. “A car bomb went off against a patrol of Badoosh prison guards in al-Zanjibili intersection, west Mosul,leaving two guards killed and two others wounded”. Earlier, a car bomb detonated against a U.S. army patrol, leaving five individuals, including three children and 12 others wounded”. Mosul, the provincial capital of Ninewa, 400 km north Baghdad, is viewed by U.S. and Iraqi authorities as one of the last remaining al-Qaida strongholds in Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered a two-phase military crackdown in the northern city in May. Ninewa officials said the gains from these operations, however, have disintegrated as militant groups re-entered the city there due to an insufficient number of Iraqi troops to maintain security following operations in May. AM(S) 1