BAGHDAD, Iraq — A suicide bomber detonated his car today near a police patrol in Baquoba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing five policemen and wounding five others, officials said.

U.S. Air Force jets destroyed a building near the Syrian border today where al-Qaida insurgents hid weapons, the U.S. military said.

The attack occurred early in the day in the village of Bu Hardan near the cities of Qaim and Husaybah where U.S. and Iraqi troops conducted a major operation in the past four days.

"The terrorists were seen moving mortars and other small weapons into the targeted building," the statement said. "This weapons cache was directly linked to mortar attacks on Coalition and Iraqi security forces."

The statement said the raid destroyed the building and "all contents of the weapons cache."

Late Tuesday, the military announced that U.S. and Iraqi forces have secured the town of Husaybah and that al-Qaida-led insurgents there have been neutralized.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The release of final results from landmark legislative elections held last September has again been postponed because investigators have not concluded inquiries into allegations of widespread cheating in southern Afghanistan, officials said today.The results were initially scheduled to be released last month, but they have been repeatedly delayed by inquiries into widespread fraud.Peter Erben, the chief electoral officer, told a press conference that the final results would be announced "within a few days" despite officials earlier saying that they would be completed by today.Final results have been certified in 33 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, Kandahar province being the single outstanding one, Erben said.Allegations of fraud have seen 50 election staff fired and about 3 percent of the ballot boxes taken out of the counting process. Some leading candidates have demanded a vote recount, but election organizers have ruled that out."Many people bought their way to power. It happened everywhere," said Safia Siddiqi, a women candidate listed as a provisional winner from eastern Nangahar province. "It was very unfortunate, as the candidates supported by the people have not necessarily won."The polls have been hailed as the final formal step toward having a representative government after a quarter century of war that left more than a million people dead.But observers have warned that more than half of those listed as provisional winners are former warlords or others suspected to have ties to armed militias.By The Associated Press