Dozens Die In Attack On Police In Iraqi City -- New York Times
BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber attacked a provincial police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday morning, the police and the city’s civil defense director said, killing at least 36 people and wounding 105. Three other suicide attackers who tried to enter the police headquarters after the blast were killed by the police.
Security forces cordoned off the site and closed government buildings and the main roads in Kirkuk as ambulances took the wounded to a hospital. The commander of the Kirkuk police was among those wounded and was taken to Erbil for treatment.
Nauzad Mohamed, a police officer who was wounded in the attack, said the bomber was “driving a police car and wearing a police uniform.”
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More News On The Violence In Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq launches suicide assault in Kirkuk -- Long War Journal
Iraqi officials raise death toll in suicide attack north of Baghdad to 18 -- Washington Post/AP
Death toll from Iraq suicide bombing rises to 19: police -- Reuters
Suicide bomber kills four Iraq anti-Qaeda fighters -- Global Post/AFP
My Comment: I am so glad that we are out of that horrid mess.
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