BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug 22, SPA -- More than 500 Iraqi men have joined the police in the restive Anbar province in the most successful recruiting drive by U.S. and Iraqi forces, the U.S. military said Tuesday. Also Tuesday, five people were killed including two in a bomb explosion in Baghdad, and two civilians during clashes between British forces and gunmen in the southern city of Amarah, police said. U.S. Marines screened thousands of applicants Aug. 11-14 in various regions along the western Euphrates River valley before shortlisting the recruits, said a statement by the U.S. command, according to a report of the Associated Press. It «was the most successful recruiting/screening drivefor U.S. and Iraqi forces in this region to date,» Maj. Lowell Rector, who is in charge of the police transitionteam for Regimental Combat Team 7, was quoted as saying in the statement If all 500 new applicants stay with the force after the8-10 weeks training, Anbar will have more than 2,200 police officers in uniform, the statement said.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/384282