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Baghdad (AFP) Jan 29, 2011 Two policemen, including a senior officer, were gunned down in Baghdad by insurgents using silenced pistols on Saturday evening, an interior ministry official said. Lieutenant Colonel Dhia Mahmud Abbas, was killed while in his car in the upscale residential neighbourhood of Mansur, west Baghdad. Ali Jassem Mohammed, another policeman, was killed in the same fashion in Utaifiyah in the north of the capital. Both were employees of the police's internal affairs directorate. Their shootings came three days after two foreign ministry officials were shot dead by gunmen using silenced pistols, in attacks security officials said were aimed to destabilise Iraq's plans to host an Arab League summit in March. The violence comes amid a spike in unrest in Iraq that has seen more people killed in the past two weeks than throughout any of the past three months.
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