[Excerpt: The blast was set off by remote control as police were inside. The building and several other houses were flattened......The incident, late on Tuesday, ended a day of unrelenting violence in Sunni Muslim areas north of Baghdad.] _http://212.58.240.132/1/hi/world/middle_east/4131479.stm_ (http://212.58.240.132/1/hi/world/middle_east/4131479.stm) Last Updated: Wednesday, 29 December, 2004, 10:55 GMT
Blast kills many in Baghdad raid Insurgents lured Iraqi policemen to a house in west Baghdad and set off a huge amount of explosives, killing at least 29 people, seven of them police. The ambush happened in the ramshackle Ghazalia district after police received a tip-off about a militants' hideout. The blast was set off by remote control as police were inside. The building and several other houses were flattened. The incident, late on Tuesday, ended a day of unrelenting violence in Sunni Muslim areas north of Baghdad. Dozens of police were killed in a string of apparently coordinated attacks in Tikrit, Samarra, Baquba, and in Baghdad itself where a National Guard general narrowly escaped a car bomb outside his home. Several people were believed to be trapped under the rubble after Tuesday's blast, and four policemen are reported missing. Hoax tip-off The police said they responded to a call from a neighbour saying that there was shooting coming from a house. "When the police arrived and went in, the house blew up. It seems to have been a trap, " one police officer said The US military said that American soldiers and Iraqi troops worked through the night in the search for survivors. Initial findings indicated that 700-800kg (1,700-1,800lb) of explosives had been used in the attack, the US military said. The BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says Tuesday's attacks demonstrated that insurgents were not only well organised but capable of hitting a range of targets. In one of the attacks, a police station in Dijla was stormed by gunmen who executed 12 officers by slitting their throats, according to one report. Brig Gen Geoffrey Hammond, a senior officer in the US army brigade that controls Baghdad, said he expected insurgents would continue their efforts "to destroy life in Baghdad". Violence has increased in the run-up to US-backed national elections set for 30 January. enditem [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
