Car bomb at police station kills at least 17, police say (IRAQ Sunday)

[matcom]

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KHALDIYAH, Iraq (AP) A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car outside a police station Sunday morning west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 more, the U.S. military said.

The car bombing in Khaldiyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, killed police officers, city workers and civilian bystanders, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jeff Swisher.

''About 8:30 (a.m.), a car bomb was detonated at Khaldiyah police station. We have some indication that it's a suicide bomber. But it's too early to give a final judgment,'' Swisher told reporters at the scene.

An emergency room administrator at a hospital in the nearby city of Ramadi put the toll even higher, at 21 people killed and more than 20 injured. Many victims were Iraqi police officers and workers who were sweeping the street outside the district police office, said hospital administrator Haitham Bahar Taha.

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[underpants]

1. But but I thought all that would stop once we caught Saddam!!!!

uh-huh

Hopefully these will diminish but either way the troops ain't coming home for some time now. Great we solved PART of a problem that we created.

[Maeve]

2. And so it continues...nt