And now back to the reality of the occupation(s)...

Blasts outside two Baghdad police stations

Monday 15 December 2003, 11:09 Makka Time, 8:09 GMT

Police stations have come under regular attack since the occupation

Two car bombs have exploded outside police stations in Iraq, leaving at 
least 10 people killed and shattering any hopes of an end to violence after 
Saddam Hussein's capture.

One car bomb ripped through the Zuhur police station at al-Husayniah 
village, 30 km north of Baghdad, killing nine people and injuring more than 
20 on Monday, said police.

A second explosives-laden car, with the driver inside, exploded outside the 
Amiriyah criminal investigation department in Baghdad, shortly afterwards.

The driver was killed and four policemen were wounded in the mainly 
residential area. Four cars were also destroyed in the blast.

Another attack was foiled in Amiriyah when police fired at a
speeding car. The driver abandoned the vehicle and fled. Explosives were 
found in his car and defused.

Police targeted

On Sunday, at least 18 people were killed and 29 others wounded when a car 
bomb exploded at a police station in Khalidiyah west of Baghdad. Two 
civilians, including a seven-year-old girl, were among those killed.

The car bomb came a day after US officials confirmed ousted Iraqi leader 
Saddam Hussein was captured after hiding in a three-metre deep hole, at a 
northern Iraqi farm.

Questions were raised whether the Iraqi resistance against occupation 
forces would continue after the former leader's capture.

US Senator Jay Rockefeller, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence 
Committee, said the circumstances of Saddam's arrest made it unlikely that 
he had been directing resistance attacks.

Military authorities had accused the toppled leader of spearheading 
attacks, even while in hiding.
-- 
Macdonald Stainsby
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		--Brecht.


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