One Iraqi police officer is killed and two policemen are wounded Monday in a raid on a house where an insurgent linked to al Qaeda's was hiding in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra.<br/> Acting on intelligence information, members from the Iraqi Major Crimes Task Force, backed by the army raided a house in the center of the city of Basra where a suspect was hiding.<br/> When the raid was launched the suspect threw grenades killing one police officer and wounding two others.<br/> The target was also killed in the attack.<br/> (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) IHSSAN MNAWER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF BASRA EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, SAYING:<br/> "Police force raided at 0200 a.m. the house of the guard of Qamar Bani Hashim school where the insurgent was hiding. A police captain was killed and another policeman was wounded when the terrorist blew himself up."<br/> Sources say the insurgent who was killed was was one of 12 insurgents linked to al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate who had escaped from prison last January.<br/> Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
