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23:45 Baghdad: A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in
Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding
a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the
latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.  In Saturday's
deadliest attack, gunmen broke into the house of an anti-
terrorism police captain in the southern suburbs of Baghdad,
killing the officer and his family in their sleep.  Police
officials identified the dead as Captain Adnan Ibrahim, his wife
and two children, aged eight and 10.  The attackers fled the
scene, and killed another policeman who tried to stop them at a
nearby checkpoint.  Meanwhile in the western Sunni province of
Anbar, gunmen kidnapped eight policemen who were guarding a post
on the main highway linking Iraq to both Jordan and Syria,
according to two police officials.  Earlier in the day, security
forces and gunmen clash