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At least seven police officers were killed and as many as 52 other people, including several children, were injured Monday in a car bombing that likely was organized by a local militantgroup allegedly linked to Al Qaeda, Kirkuk’s police chief said. Police Chief Torhan Abdul Rahman Yousef said he had “good information” that Ansar al-Islam was behind the blast that wrecked a police station in a Kurdish area of the northern city. “They are terrorists. They are not Islam. They are against Islam,” Yousef said as he visited wounded officers at a hospital. Full Story