In Iraq, at least four people have been killed and eight others injured in bomb and gun attacks in the capital, Baghdad, and in the west. Police said a car bomb exploded today in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring four others. In the western city of Haditha, a suicide bomber attacked a government building, injuring one police officer. An interior ministry official said a roadside bomb killed one police officer and injured two others in Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood. A suicide bomber in the city's Bab al-Muadham district injured one person. Authorities also said gunmen shot dead a Kurdish politician in the northern province of Diyala.