Never a shortage of exploding Muslims…

(LWJ)– A team of al Qaeda in Iraq suicide bombers stormed a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today and killed a senior police officer who has targeted al Qaeda’s top leaders.

Lieutenant Colonel Shamel Ahmed Ugla, the commander of the 1st Emergency Battalion in Mosul, and three other policemen were killed in the early morning attack after three members of a four-man suicide assault team penetrated security by slipping through a gap in the wall of the battalion’s headquarters in Bab Sinjar in western Mosul. Police killed a fourth member of the suicide team before he could enter the police headquarters and detonate his vest.

One or more of the al Qaeda in Iraq suicide bombers, who were dressed in black and armed with assault rifles, detonated their vests after entering Ahmed’s office. The blast leveled much of the building, trapping other policemen in the rubble.

In a statement issued on its website, the Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s front group, claimed credit for the attack and said it had targeted Ugla five previous times.

“This day was the decisive one,” the terror group said.

Ugla was targeted for his aggressive raids against al Qaeda’s network in Mosul. Ugla was behind the Dec. 21 raid that killed Munadel Salem, al Qaeda’s top leader in the northern city.