Thursday, September 07, 2006
Iraqi police targets of bombs
Security
As the Americans plan to hand over security to the Iraqis, taking one more step towards independence, five bomb attacks targeting police patrols in Baghdad killed at least 18 people and wounded 57. A suicide car bomb targeting a police patrol outside a gas station near the Elouya Hospital in central Baghdad killed 10 people, including four policemen, and wounded 21, police said. Earlier, a bomb hidden under a parked car near al-Nidaa Mosque in northern Baghdad exploded as a police patrol passed by, killing three civilians and wounding 20, police Lt. Thair Mahmoud said. Another suicide car bomb in Taiyran Square in the centre of the city killed two civilians and two police special forces members, and wounded 13 people, police said. In western Baghdad, a roadside bombing in Qahtan Square near Yarmouk hospital wounded four people, including a policeman, Mahmoud said. Elsewhere, in the upscale district of Mansour, a roadside bomb explosion killed a man and injured his daughter and another person, police said.
COMMENT: The attacks were most likley carried out by foriegn and Iraqi Islamic militants or Saddam's supporters, both with the aim of destabilising the country further, proving that the security forces cannot handle the situation, frightening future recruits and showing the public that the politicians have no control of the situation. COMMENT ENDS.
