Roadside bomb kills 3 cops in Ninewa

NINEWA/IraqiNews.com: About three policemen were killed and six others wounded by a roadside bomb in Ninewa on Wednesday, a security source said. “A roadside bomb went off against a police patrol passing by al-Rashidiya district, leaving three policemen killed and six others wounded,” a Ninewa police source told IraqiNews.com.   The source did not elaborate further details, but said “the wounded were admitted to a nearby hospital”. 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