Blast targets Iraq police station - (breaking on BBC)

A car bomb has exploded outside a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police say.

Witnesses said there were many casualties, but this has not been confirmed. ...


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3446981.stm

The regularity of this is astonishing -- they report that there have been over 300 Iraqi police killed since 'hostilities ended' -- I love that constant dig at Bush. It's obviously very dangerous collaborating with the US/

(snip) Posted on Sat, Jan. 31, 2004

Mosul Car Bomb Blast Said to Be Deadly
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Saturday in front of a police station in Iraq's third largest city and several people were apparently killed, witnesses said.

The witnesses said windows of buildings were shattered by the blast in Mosual and plumes of smoke could be seen. No other details were available.

Witnesses said they saw several bodies but no official confirmation was available. One policeman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the blast was so powerful that there were casualties even inside the police station building.

The police station is next to the University of Mosul campus.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/7842142.htm

off the wire

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A car bomb exploded Saturday in front of a police station in Iraq's third largest city, killing at least nine people and wounding 45, witnesses and hospital staff said.

Witnesses in Mosul saw severed limbs and decapitated bodies on the street in front of the police station. Windows of buildings were shattered and plumes of smoke could be seen in the area.

Staff at the Republican Hospital in Mosul said nine people including civilians and policemen were killed and 45 others were injured.

Some witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it appeared that a car drove through a security barricade in front of the police station before exploding. This could not be independently confirmed.

Anyway for ludites like me to VIEW tv media online? I don't get BBC anymore and CNN will only give us news ....When they 'feel' like it..
:grr:

The police are seen as collaborators. The fact that the police is as corrupt and brutal as Saddam's police also makes them a logical target of opportunity.

In 1965 there was a bombing at the My Cahn restaurant which was on a barge in the Saigon River. 29 killed, including 8 Americans, 100 wounded.

Iraq is another Vietnam! The Iraq War Resolution is another Tonkin Gulf Resolution.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

--Hanoi Hannah

Hanoi Hannah

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