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Baghdad Blast Targets Sunni Tribal Leaders
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Garver said the military has checked accounts of sniper killings and had "no reports of anything like that."
Earlier, at 6:30 a.m., a suicide attacker rammed a black Chevy Caprice into a group of cadets outside the Hilla police station, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, and detonated explosives, killing eight people and wounding 31, police said.
"We do not know where the car came from," said Ahmed al-Mosawi, a guard at the building who was being treated for injuries at a local hospital and who was interviewed by telephone. "There was an explosion and a big blast, and a dust cloud went up and I lost consciousness."
When he awoke, Mosawi said, "There were uniforms and weapons spread everywhere, and there were big stains of blood on the ground." He wept. "I have been granted a new life."
A car bomb in the northern city of Mosul killed two policemen and injured 20 people, local police said.
The Reuters news service reported that a suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle at a police checkpoint in Siniyah, nine miles west of Baiji, killing two soldiers and wounding three.
Against the backdrop of violence, the International Crisis Group, an independent research organization, released a report Monday sharply critical of the British military operation in the southern port city of Basra, saying that "the city's descent into chaos under British occupation" is an example of what could happen in Baghdad.
The report says Basra is beset by a "bloody competition for resources" that has undermined the government and fostered "terror between rival militias" engaged in cycles of retaliatory violence.
Asserting that "violence has become a routine means of social interaction," the report's authors conclude that the "Basra experience suggests the most likely outcome in Iraq is its untidy break-up into myriad fiefdoms, superficially held together by the presence of coalition forces."
A British military spokesman could not be reached for comment late Monday.
Robert Malley, the group's Middle East program director, said in a statement that U.S. and British officials should "acknowledge that their so-called Iraqi partners, far from building a new state, are tirelessly working to tear it down."
Special correspondents Yasmin Mousa in Amman, Dahlia Farooq in Baghdad and other Washington Post staff in Iraq contributed to this report.
