Truck bomb in Iraq kills 7 policemen

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, June 10 (Reuters) - A suicide truck bomb killed seven policemen at a police station north of Baghdad on Sunday, a hospital official said.

The attack occurred east of the town of Tikrit. The hospital official said 35 people had been wounded, including both police and civilians.


Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1099143.htm

[David__77]

1. Cannon fodder.

The US comes in and destroys what was left of the Iraqi economy after more than a decade of cruel sanctions, and then naturally Iraqi men feel compelled to join the police and "army" forces in spite of their patriotism, and then they become targets of Iraqis fighting occupation. It's a terrible cycle, and the US and its allies are to blame.

[Eugene]

2. Bomb in Iraq kills 8 policemen, destroys station

Source: Reuters

Bomb in Iraq kills 8 policemen, destroys station
10 Jun 2007 09:47:28 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Dean Yates

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 10 (Reuters) - A suicide truck bomb
killed eight policemen and wounded dozens more at a police
station north of Baghdad on Sunday in the latest assault by
insurgents on Iraq's security forces, police said.

They said the bomb largely destroyed the station in the
village of Albu-Ajeel in Salahaddin province. Many police
were initially trapped under rubble, including one officer
who called for help on his mobile phone, police said.

Among the dead were five officers, including two colonels,
police in the nearby provincial capital Tikrit said. More
than 30 police were among some 50 people wounded.

-snip-

While several police and hospital sources said only one truck
bomb was used, another police official said a second vehicle,
a car, was believed to have exploded just after the truck
bomb detonated.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1051923.htm

[maddezmom]

3. Bombs blast Baghdad fuel stations

Bombs blast Baghdad fuel stations
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Bombs blasted two separate fuel stations in the Iraqi capital city Sunday, killing at least three civilians and wounding 12 others, an Iraqi interior ministry official said.

A parked car bomb exploded outside a fuel station in southwestern Baghdad killed at least one civilian and wounded five others Sunday, the official said.

The station was in Saydiya, a mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood.

About fifteen minutes later, a car bomb exploded at another fuel station in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least two civilians and wounding seven others, the official said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/10/sunday/index.html