26 policemen killed in west Iraq.

RTE News - Dozens of al-Qaeda fighters, some wearing army uniforms, killed 26 policemen in a wave of attacks on checkpoints and officers' homes across Haditha in west Iraq.
Insurgents dressed in military uniforms and riding in stolen army vehicles simultaneously attacked two checkpoints in the east and west of Haditha before storming other security posts and raiding the homes of two officers.
Investigators found al-Qaeda literature in a vehicle that the attackers left behind
The gunmen first attacked checkpoints at the eastern and western edges of Haditha.
The attack in Haditha, 210km northeast of Baghdad, is the first major instance of violence in the town since a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bank, killing nine people including three police, and wounding eight others in March 2011.
Haditha is in western Sunni Arab Anbar province. It was one of several towns along the Euphrates valley that became Al-Qaeda strongholds after the 2003 US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.