Iraqi Cops Arrest 5 in Basra Blasts

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118020,00.html

Iraqi Cops Arrest 5 in Basra Blasts

Friday, April 23, 2004

BASRA, Iraq — Police arrested five Iraqis on Friday believed linked to Al Qaeda (search) and suspected in this week's homicide bombings in Basra (search), and the men led police to a stash of 20 tons of explosives, a police intelligence chief said.

The arrests came two days after attackers set off car bombs outside police stations and a police academy in this Shiite-majority southern city, killing 74 people, including at least 16 children whose school buses were incinerated by the blast as they passed one of the stations.

Five car bombs were used in the attack, and police seized two more explosive-laden vehicles Wednesday before they could be detonated.

Basra's police intelligence chief Col. Khalaf al-Badran said police were now looking for at least one more car bomb somewhere in the city.

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No way am I clicking through.

Same story but from the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4012894,00.html

BASRA, Iraq (AP) - Police on Friday arrested five Iraqis believed linked to al-Qaida and suspected in this week's suicide bombings in Basra, and the men led police to a stash of 20 tons of explosives, a police intelligence chief said.

Two of the men were caught in a truck carrying 3.5 tons of TNT, and the other three were captured in a house where another ton of explosives, along with mortar shells and rockets were found, said Col. Khalaf al-Badran, head of police intelligence in Basra.

The men led police to a second house where police found 20 tons of explosives, TNT, mortar shells, rockets and artillery shells, al-Badran said.

The five confessed to working with a Syrian connected to al-Qaida who travels between Iraq and neighboring Kuwait, he said.

surely THEY were the thugs and terrorists causing all the problems overthere....should be smooth sailing now......