A suicide truck bomber attacked the home of a city police chief in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, killing nine Iraqi security forces and six civilians, the U.S. military said Saturday. The attack, which did not hurt the police chief or his family, occurred on Friday in Hit, a city 140 kilometers (85 miles) west of Baghdad that the U.S. military had recently reported making progress in regarding the reduction of violence, according to AP. Elsewhere, U.S. forces detained 17 suspected insurgents in raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq on Saturday, the military said, a day after the Pentagon announced the capture of one of the terror network's most senior and experienced operatives. Denmark also announced it is sending special forces to southern Iraq in an effort to stop stepped-up attacks against Danish and British soldiers in the Shiite-dominated area -- SPA
