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Iraq
Car bomber kills Iraq police recruits
2006-01-03
At least 16 people have been killed in Iraq, including seven police recruits blown up by a car bomber as they travelled on a bus. The recruits, who had just joined the force, were killed on Monday when the car bomber rammed his car into their bus near Baquba, north of Baghdad, as they travelled to the Kurdish northern region for training. Thirteen other recruits were wounded.

At least eight more Iraqis were killed by machine gun fire in attacks elsewhere in the country, including children in a car. And an ambulance driver was shot through the head as he drove to a hospital in Kirkuk, security officials said. The children, two boys aged 7 and 10, died in the drive-by shooting when armed men targeted their parents' car south of Kirkuk. The parents were wounded. Three more men were shot and killed while travelling in a car just south of Baghdad, near Iskandariya.

Two Iraqi soldiers died when their patrol was hit by a roadside bomb near Dujail, north of Baghdad. Another soldier was killed and an officer wounded in a drive-by shooting on the road between Baiji and Tikrit.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Tactically, IEDs are the next-to-last technique left to the terrorists. As the LAPD will tell you, the drive by shooting is the easiest thing to pull off, and one of the harder things to stop.

It also means that the conflict is rapidly becoming an entirely police, rather than military, affair.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-01-03 17:47  

#3  A solid HR program always accounts for attrition, whatever the cause.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-03 15:42  

#2  One encouraging thing with all these police recruit bombings is that the Iraqis are still lining up and risking a boomer to become police. That means it cannot just be for a job, other jobs pay less but lack the pre-interview explosions.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2006-01-03 15:33  

#1  Have the bombers been picking up the pace lately ?
Yesterday, I read that the influx from Syria has been chocked off. Are the Baathists accelerating the insurgency ? Is it time for decimation procedures ?
Posted by: wxjames   2006-01-03 10:21  

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