A member of a Kurdish Peshmerga militia was killed and at least 12 others were injured on Friday by a car bomb in the troubled northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said, according to dpa. Police told the German Press Agency dpa that the Peshmerga militiamen were patrolling the al-Rabia district of Mosul when the bomb exploded. Mosul and its environs are among the most ethnically diverse areas of Iraq, and among the most violent. Despite successive security pushes that police say have netted hundreds of suspected insurgents, armed men continue to launch near-daily attacks in and around the city with deadly effect. The Arab nationalist government that came to power in last January"s provincial council elections has vowed to rid Mosul and villages to the east of the city of the Kurdish Peshmergas currently responsible for policing some areas. Friday"s car bombing in Mosul followed a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a police station in the western Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib. Two policemen were injured in that attack, police there told dpa.
