BAGHDAD, July 4, (AFP): Bomb and gun attacks across Iraq on Monday killed at least 10 people and wounded 28, many of them policemen and soldiers, security officials said.
In Baghdad’s Mansur neighbourhood, three policeman were killed and one wounded by an improvised bomb that also hurt three civilians, an interior ministry official said.
Another suicide bomber in the Baab al-Muadham neighbourhood of central Baghdad wounded five security personnel guarding a bus station, the official said.
In south Baghdad an improvised bomb killed one person and wounded three others.
Meanwhile, in the city of Fallujah, 69 kms (43 miles) west of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded outside a hospital killing a policeman and a civilian, said police official Major Nuri al-Jumaili. Eight other people were wounded, five of them policemen.
In Haditha, also in western Iraq, a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-packed belt near the city council building, wounding two policemen, he said.

In southern Babil province, a roadside bomb killed one soldier and wounded two civilians, and a gunman assassinated a policeman from the anti-crimes unit. Three children foraging through a rubbish heap also were wounded by a bomb.
Meanwhile, in northern Iraq, gunmen with silencers killed a member of President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Diyala, and a soldier was killed and one wounded by an improvised bomb outside the city of Mosul, security officials said.
June was the deadliest month this year for the number of Iraqis killed in attacks, according to government figures. It was the bloodiest since June 2008 for US troops, who are due to withdraw from Iraq by the end of this year.
A total of 271 Iraqis and 14 US soldiers lost their lives in June.
Iraq has blamed al-Qaeda for the increased death toll in June, which was up 34 percent on May. But the US military holds Iranian-backed Shiite militias responsible for the deadly attacks on its troops.

Reconciliation
Meanwhile, Iraq’s government said Monday it would not reconcile with members of al-Qaeda or anyone who has killed Iraqis, but suggested it was open to talks with those who had fought American forces.
Reconciliation Minister Amir al-Khuzai made the comments at a news conference after US forces, in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, suffered their deadliest month in three years in June.
Fourteen soldiers were killed, most in rocket attacks, as the nearly 50,000 American troops remaining in Iraq prepare to pull out at the end of this year.
June also was the bloodiest month so far this year for Iraqis, with 271 killed in violence. “Reconciliation will not include those whose hands are covered with Iraqi blood, al-Qaeda, or members of the Baath party” of Saddam Hussein, the dictator ousted by the invasion.
“Reconciliation does include those who said, ‘we resisted the occupiers for seven years, and today they are on their way to withdraw at the end of 2011, so we have to return to our lives,’” Khuzai added, referring to US forces as “occupiers,” as many Iraqis do.
Khuzai said in April that Baghdad was hoping to reconcile with any members of the Islamic State of Iraq, al-Qaeda’s front group in the country, who do not have blood on their hands.
In the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, hundreds demonstrated against the minister on Sunday, accusing him of talks with those who had killed Iraqis.

“We are doing the reconciliation with Iraqis because they are Iraqis not because they belong to a specific faction,” Khuzai explained in his latest comments.
“We did not reconcile with a group, party, sect, entity or faction. We reconciled with individuals, we treated each case individually, and those who had killed Iraqis did not participate in the reconciliation talks,” he added.
Baghdad blames al-Qaeda for the attacks against Iraqis, while the US military accuses Iranian-backed Shiite groups of killing its soldiers in the recent attacks.
Since 2003, most of the attacks against American troops have been by nationalist Sunni guerrillas and factions led by Moqtada al-Sadr, a vehemently anti-US Shiite cleric who is close to Iran, and whose Sadrist loyalists are part of Iraq’s unity government.
Since 2003, 4,469 American soldiers have died in Iraq, according to independent website icasualties.org, 3,537 in attacks. More than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed since then, according to the online Iraq Body Count, which only lists documented deaths.
US officials have recently accused Iran of smuggling more lethal weapons to Shiite insurgent groups in Iraq, a charge denied by Tehran.