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Gunmen using silenced weapons attacked at least six checkpoints in Baghdad on Monday, killing seven Iraqi soldiers and policemen, while bombs planted at three others wounded several more, an Interior Ministry source said.The source, who asked not to be identified, said the attacks showed a new tactic was being used by suspected Sunni Islamist insurgents. All the checkpoints were attacked around the same time at dawn."This was a message to us that they can attack us in different parts of the city at the same time because they have cells everywhere," he said.Overall violence in Iraq has fallen sharply since the height of sectarian warfare in 2006/07 but a March election that produced no clear winner and left the country adrift in political uncertainty has fuelled tensions.The Iraqi government has scored several major battlefield victories against al Qaeda's local network in recent weeks, including the killing of the organisation's two top leaders in Iraq in April.But U.S. and Iraqi military officials say that while weakened, al Qaeda in Iraq and affiliated Sunni Islamist groups remain a potent force.Two of the checkpoints attacked by gunmen were in eastern Baghdad, one in the south and the others in the west. The ones attacked by bombs were all in the south and southeast.A total of around 21 people, including three civilians, were wounded in the coordinated assaults.(Writing by Michael Christie; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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