http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=716&e=14&u=/nm/20040312/ts_nm/iraq_killings_dcBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four Iraqi police were being held on suspicion of killing two American civilians and an Iraqi translator, all of whom worked for the U.S.-led administration, in an attack this week, a military spokesman said Friday.
"Six persons were detained as part of the incident. Four of those persons were carrying current and we believe valid Iraqi police service identification," Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the U.S. Army in Iraq (news - web sites), told a news conference.
The three were killed late Tuesday on a road between Kerbala and Hilla, south of Baghdad. Their car was found later by Polish troops in charge of security in the area, with the bodies of the victims in the trunk.
U.S. occupation troops have been hiring and training Iraqi police in the hope that they could eventually take over the security of Iraq.
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