IED wounds 3 cops in Dalouiya

SALAH EL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: Three policemen were wounded on Friday in a bomb explosion in central Dalouiya district in Salah el-Din province, a police source said. “Three policemen were wounded when an improvised explosive device went off targeting them in al-Jubur neighborhood in central Dalouiya,” Major Ali Hassan Abdullah told IraqiNews.com. Dalouiya is located 90 km north of Baghdad. Salah al-Din has an area of 24,751 square kilometers (9,556.4 sq mi). The estimated population for 2003 was 2,146,500 people. Located in Central Iraq, north of Baghdad, it is a mainly Sunni province with only two Shiite districts, namely Balad and al-Dujail. Its capital city is Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It also includes other important districts like Baiji, north of Tikrit, 175 km north of Baghdad. The province also contains the significantly larger city of Samarra. Before 1976 the province was part of the governorate of Baghdad. It is named after Saladin (written Salah ah Din in modern Arabic), an ethnic Kurd and hero of the 12 th century. Salahuddin province is a variant version of the province’s name. SH (S) 1