Insurgents Kill Iraqi Police, Bomb Buildings as Conflict Enters Third Year

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Insurgents targeted Iraqi security forces and government buildings with gunfire, suicide bomb attacks and mortar rounds Sunday, leaving at least five people dead - including a top anti-corruption official - as the conflict moved into its third year since the U.S.-led invasion.

In neighboring Jordan, a court convicted Iraq's most-wanted terrorist, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, for plotting to attack the Jordanian embassy here, sentencing him in absentia to 15 years imprisonment.

In Iraq's north, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a government compound in Mosul, killing himself and Walid Kashmoula, the head of the Iraqi police anti-corruption department, officials said. Three others were injured.

In Baghdad, residents said saboteurs blew up a municipal building in a western neighborhood, reducing the two-story building to rubble. No injuries were reported.

A Humvee was overturned on the highway to the airport. Witnesses said it was hit by a roadside bomb, but U.S. military officials were not immediately available to comment. U.S. troops sealed off the area.