Five Iraqi Policemen killed, five other injured in explosions in Samara

[Barrett808]

Tikrit BAGHDAD, June 13 (KUNA) -- Three Iraqi Policemen were killed Monday and another five were injured in a suicidal attack targeting a joint American-Iraqi security patrol.

An Iraqi Police source said in a press statement today that the booby trapped car blew up when a joint American Iraqi patrol was passing in Al-Khadhra'a town north Samara in the Tikrit province.

Furthermore, two Iraqi policemen were killed in an explosion in the city of Tikrit, the northern province's largest cities.

An Iraqi Police source said that a car bomb blew up near an Iraqi patrol vehicle in Al-Ihtifaalat road in Tikrit city.

Iraqi security forces sealed off the area, the source added, while aid squads rushed the injured to a near by hospital.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=742364

[Roland99]

1. Good grief! Samara, Mosul, road between Baghdad & Baquba, & Tikrit!

Must be those "last throes".

This will all be over by the Fourth of July. Then Iraq can celebrate its own Independence Day.

[Barrett808]

2. It does appear to be falling apart more rapidly in recent days n/t

[bemildred]

3. It's a busy day today. Must be really "desperate".

:banghead::banghead::banghead: