A TRUCK laden with nitric acid and explosives overturned before the driver could attack a security station run by US and Iraqi troops north of Baghdad, the US military said today. A security patrol went to help the driver of the truck after it overturned and found it loaded with eight containers of nitric acid and explosives. The driver confessed he had been paid to attack the joint security station in Mushada, which also houses the town's police station, north of Baghdad.
| And now he can 'pay' to tell us all the details! |
The use of nitric acid in bomb attacks could mark another shift in tactics by insurgents, who in recent months have rigged nearly a dozen truck bombs with chlorine gas, mainly in western Anbar province. |