US War Update: Blasts Target Iraqi Police Recruits in Baghdad and Mosul

Monday, December 01, 2008
16:16 Mecca time, 13:16 GMT

Blasts target Iraqi police recruits

The two blasts in Baghdad occurred within minutes of each other, killing
mainly police recruits

At least 16 people have been killed and another 45 wounded in Baghdad,
the Iraqi capital, in a double bomb attack.

Iraqi officials said a teenage suicide bomber blew himself up as police
rushed to respond to a prior car bomb blast on Monday.

The two blasts occurred within minutes of each other on Palestine Street
outside the heavily fortified police academy in eastern Baghdad, where
recruits had gathered, according to police and witnesses.

Those killed included five policemen and 11 recruits, while the 46
wounded included 11 policemen and 35 recruits, according to police and
hospital officials.

Bloodied police uniforms were scattered with the crumpled metal hulk of
the car bomb on the charred street in the aftermath of the bombing,
footage from the Associated Press Television News showed.

Mosul bombing

Elsewhere in the country on Monday, 15 people were killed and about 30
wounded in a suicide car bombing against a joint US-Iraqi patrol in the
centre of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said.

"A suicide bomber blew his car up in the path of a joint patrol between
Iraqi police and the American military in Mosul al-Jadida," a police
officer at the scene was reported by the AFP news agency as saying.

The interior minister said the majority of the victims were policemen.

The latest bombings follow the Iraqi parliament approval of a security
pact with the US that lets American forces remain in Iraq for three more
years.

Source: Agencies

Iraq: bombs kill more than 30 in Baghdad, Mosul

By HAMID AHMED, Associated Press Writer

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