Police officer escapes assassination attempt

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: An improvised explosive device went off Monday in front of the house of a police officer in central Mosul , leaving no casualties, a security source said. “An explosive charge w ent off in front of the house of Colonel Faez al-Nujiefi, in al-Tayaran neighborhood in central Mosul ,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The explosion caused no casualties,” he added, noting that the officer was not home when the bomb exploded. Mosul , the capital of Ninewa, is 405 km north of Baghdad . SH (P)/SR 1