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| Zarqawi kills 33 in latest massacre | |
| 2005-06-27 | |
The attacks in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, started early Sunday when a pickup carrying a suicide bomber with explosives hidden beneath watermelons slammed into a downtown police station near a market. U.S. Army Capt. Mark Walter said 10 policemen and two civilians were killed. Less than two hours later, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the parking lot of an Iraqi army base on Mosul's outskirts, killing 16 people, Walter said. Most of the victims were civilian workers arriving at the site, he said. Of the seven injured, one lost a leg and another was paralyzed from the waist down, the military said. In the afternoon, a third attacker, with explosives strapped on, blew himself up in the Jumhouri Teaching Hospital in a room used by police guarding the facility, killing five policemen. Inside, dead police officers who had apparently been sleeping were sprawled in their underwear, their bodies and the walls peppered with ball bearings. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq group claimed responsibility for the attacks. The U.S. military praised the Iraqi forces for their efforts in the face of Sunday's attacks: "Policemen in Mosul have continued to man their posts." Rumsfeld said he is bracing for even more violence. "We're not going to win against the insurgency. The Iraqi people are going to win against the insurgency. That insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years," Rumsfeld said on Fox News Sunday. | |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |