BAGHDAD, March 31, SPA -- A suicide truck bomber plowed through asandbag barrier to strike a police station in the northernIraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing at least eightpeople and wounding 12, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The British military, meanwhile, transferred overcoalition command of the oil-rich southern province ofBasra to the United States on Tuesday. It was the lateststep toward the full withdrawal of the remaining 4,000British troops from Iraq by the end of May, Associated Press reported.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/649719