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Gunmen kill 12 at Baghdad alcohol shops
by Staff Writers
Baghdad (AFP) May 14, 2013


Iraq province to ditch fake bomb detectors
Nasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) May 14, 2013 - Police in Dhi Qar are to replace fake bomb detectors bought from a now jailed British businessman with sniffer dogs, the police chief of the southern Iraqi province said on Tuesday.

"We decided to buy 30 police dogs to strengthen security checkpoints and detection of explosives... replacing the explosives detection devices currently in use," Staff Lieutenant General Hussein Abed Ali told reporters.

The 30 dogs will join the eight currently in use in the province, Ali said.

Despite being widely discredited, hand-held "bomb detectors" purchased from British businessman James McCormick are still in widespread use in Iraq.

McCormick made an estimated �50 million ($76 million/59 million euros) selling the devices, which prosecutors said were based on a novelty golf ball finder and did not work, to Iraq and other countries.

He has been sentenced by a judge in Britain to 10 years in jail for fraud.

Gunmen armed with silenced weapons shot dead 12 people at alcohol shops in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, while four people died in other attacks, security and medical officials said.

The gunmen, who were travelling in four vehicles, restrained federal policemen at a checkpoint in the Zayouna area of Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.

They then shot dead 12 people in multiple adjoining alcohol shops nearby, the ministry official said.

A medical official confirmed the toll.

With alcohol forbidden by Islam, Baghdad liquor stores are an attractive target for fundamentalist groups, made more so because they are often staffed by religious minorities.

In other violence on Tuesday, gunmen killed an anti-Qaeda militiaman along with his brother in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, while a car bomb in the northern city of Mosul killed a child and wounded 14 people, police and doctors said.

And gunmen killed anti-government protest organiser Abdulrahman al-Badri near the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, officials said.

Protests broke out in Sunni areas of Shiite-majority Iraq more than four months ago.

Demonstrators have called for the resignation of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite, and criticised authorities for allegedly targeting their community with wrongful detentions and accusations of involvement in terrorism.

On April 23, security forces moved on protesters near the northern town of Hawijah, sparking clashes that killed 53 people, while dozens more died in subsequent unrest that included revenge attacks against security forces.

Violence in Iraq has fallen from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common, killing more than 200 people in each of the first four months of this year.

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