Bomb Rocks Baghdad Police Station

[bluestateguy]

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A big explosion Thursday rocked a police station in northeast Baghdad and witnesses reported seeing many wounded, some believed dead.

The bombing attack hit a police facility in the Shiite Muslim slum known as Sadr City.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99542,00.html

[FlemingsGhost]

1. In the end, this is what will defeat Bush et al.

Losing a manufactured "war," badly... I might add, won't sit well with the American public, no matter how slick a PR campaign they roll out.

(edited for grammar)

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

2. our troops are dying every day as these bombs blow up

maybe there were no troops today in the police station but this is no place for our troops-

Saddam is gone,the war is over and it's time to go home.

[ze_dscherman]

3. Update on this: nine people killed

BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct. 9 — A suicide car bomber hit a police station in northeast Baghdad Thursday morning, killing nine people including the bomber, police and the U.S. military said.
Capt. Sean Kirley, of the 2nd Armored Cavalry, said three policemen and five civilians were killed in addition to the attacker.



See: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031009_231.html

[Mari333]

4. add to that : Condi Rice lied her ass off yesterday

"everything is going fineeeee"......

[Judi Lynn]

5. One more story on this bombing

Suicide attacker in car rocks police station in northeast Baghdad

HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer Thursday, October 9, 2003



(10-09) 02:35 PDT BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) --

A suicide car bomber drove through the gates of police station in northeast Baghdad and detonated an explosive Thursday morning, killing eight people and injuring 28, police and the U.S. military said. The vehicle's driver and a passenger also died in the blast.

Elsewhere in Baghdad, a Spanish military attache was shot to death Thursday as he left his home in Baghdad, Spain's foreign ministry said. Jose Antonio Bernal Gomez was an air force sergeant attached to Spain's National Intelligence Center, it said. Spanish officials in Baghdad declined to comment.

Mangled police cars were scattered around the the bomb site and debris filled the big courtyard in front of the one-story police building. A U.S. officer said the blast left a crater in the courtyard that was about 10 feet across and 4 feet deep.

Capt. Sean Kirley, of the 2nd Armored Cavalry, said three policemen and five civilians were killed. Iraqi police Capt. Bassem Sami said there were two people in the car that exploded. He said 28 people were wounded. (snip/...)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/10/09/international0535EDT0490.DTL

Noticed the Fox article said "homicide bomber" while this one from AP slipped up and used the traditional "suicide bomber." Strange people, right-wing psychopathic propagandists.

[VolcanoJen]

6. Kick, and casualty update

progrocker69 posted this link with a casualty update in the thread below (which has since been locked as a dupe):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=159014

The article claims 10 dead, 45 wounded in the attack. Here is the link for the article progrocker69 posted:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031010/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716

Let's keep our discussion about the police station bombing consolidated into the earliest thread (this one).

Thanks,
VolcanoJen
DU Moderator