Car bomb explodes in Tikrit

[cal04]

looks like now it was an assassination attempt

A car bomb has exploded at a police station in the Iraqi city of Tikrit causing a number of casualties.Local police say the blast took place in the police station's parking lot. An initial report suggests there are as many as 10 fatalities.A suspected suicide car bomber has blown himself up near a police station in the northern Iraq city of Tikrit, killing at least 10 people and wounding 25.

Police captain Husam Musseyif says a man wearing a police uniform tried to drive into the police station grounds and then detonated the vehicle when he was challenged. Another police captain, Naqib Hakim Khalaf, put the toll at 10 killed and 25 wounded.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1310439.htm

Two dead in assassination attempt
A POLICE chief in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has escaped an assassination attempt, but two other policemen were killed. "A bomb exploded as my convoy drove past, killing two of my guards and wounding two others," Colonel Khattab Omar Aref, the target of the attack, said. "Two vehicles in my escort were destroyed."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12358608%255E1702,00.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. They forgot to put a no-bomb initiative on that ballot.

Let freedom reign

[GetTheRightVote]

2. It is extremely sad that we are still there causing so many problems

It is time for us to get out of there, they want us out anyway.

:kick:

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Peace and freedom are on the march,

I see...

[Charlie Brown]

4. Hmmm...Tikrit is Sunni

I wonder if this is a taste of things to come under their new Shia overlords.

[NickB79]

5. Sun rises in the West

Rain falls from the sky
Bears shit in the woods

Another day, another car bomb in the peaceful and liberated bastion of freedom known as Iraq.

[leftchick]

6. The Bomber Wore A POLICE Uniform!! 15 Killed....

It was only a matter of time before this happened... FUBAR!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050224/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Car Bomb Attack Kills 15 Iraqi Policemen

33 minutes ago Middle East - AP


By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A man wearing a police uniform drove a car bomb inside the main police compound in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown north of Baghdad on Thursday, setting off a massive explosion that killed 15 police and wounded 22, officials and witnesses said.


At least four other police were killed in separate attacks across the country, including another suicide car bomb assault on a police convoy in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital.


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The blast in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, occurred at one of the station's busiest times, when dozens of policemen were arriving to relieve colleagues who'd been working all night, police Col. Saad Daham said.


"He waited until the shift change, then he exploded the car," Daham said, adding the aim was "to kill as many as possible."

[leftchick]

7. Not much left of the HQs

An Iraqi policeman makes his way through the rubble after a man wearing a police uniform drove a car bomb inside the headquarters of police in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown of Tikrit in Iraq (news - web sites), setting off a massive explosion that killed at least 15 police and wounded 22 others Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005. (AP Photo/Bassem Daham)