JAN 24 2008 — A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform assassinated a police chief in Mosul as he surveyed rescue operations at the site of a blast that hours earlier had killed at least 36 and wounded more than 280.
Salih Mohammed Hasan Atiya al-Jubouri, acting police chief of Nineveh province, and two police officers were killed as they inspected the site of an earlier explosion in the Shingeli area.