Reuters: Car Bombs, Attacks Kill 24 in Iraq's Samarra

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Car Bombs, Attacks Kill 24 in Iraq's Samarra

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SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three car bombs exploded in Samarra and insurgents attacked three police stations in the Iraqi city Saturday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said.

Health officials said at least 20 people were killed and a similar number wounded in two car bomb blasts that targeted the town hall and a nearby joint police and National Guard checkpoint in the center of the Sunni Muslim city.

Police said rebels carried out simultaneous attacks on three police stations, killing four policemen, wounding 17 and capturing 10.

A third car bomb exploded later, targeting a U.S. convoy that was trying to reach the scene of the first two bombings, police said. They had no word on casualties in that blast.

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Samarra was pacified several weeks ago.

Samarra was a MODEL to be used in the future for containing insurgency we were told.