Reply #20: AP: Baghdad Police Academy Attacked; 43 Dead

[Hissyspit]

Just another day in Baghdad. Can you imagine if an attack like this occurred in in the U.S.? There would be an amazing outcry and it would be on the news endlessly...

Remember the female suicide bomber scene in "Apocalypse Now"? Vietnam. Vietnam. Vietnam.

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Baghdad Police Academy Attacked; 43 Dead

By SAMEER N. YACOUB (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
December 06, 2005 3:13 PM EST
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two suicide bombers detonated explosives inside Baghdad's main police academy Tuesday, killing at least 43 people and wounding more than 70, police said. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack, the capital's deadliest in months.

The bombing came as Al-Jazeera aired an insurgent video claiming to have kidnapped a U.S. security consultant - the seventh Westerner abducted in Iraq since Nov. 26 - and the U.S. military reported another American soldier killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad.

The assault on the police academy was carefully planned to maximize casualties, all of whom were police officers or cadets. The first bomber struck near a group of students outside a classroom, a U.S. military statement said. Thinking they were under mortar fire, survivors rushed to a bunker "where the second bomber detonated his vest," the statement added. One of the wounded was an American contractor.

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