Insurgents targeted Iraqi government buildings and a military convoy in two near-simultaneous bomb attacks Monday in the northern city of Mosul, killing three people, the U.S. military and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb exploded inside the government compound in Mosul, the provincial capital of Nineveh, and early reports indicated it was a suicide attack, the military said in a statement. A mortar round destroyed a gas station across the street. Three people inside the compound were killed and another one was injured in the morning blast, said provincial government spokesman Hazem Jalawi. Also around 11 a.m. (0800 GMT), a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy carrying an Iraqi general, slightly injuring him, the military said. Mosul is 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
