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Iraq
Iraq: Al-Qaida suspects assault police checkpoints, killing three
2007-08-25
Sixty suspected al-Qaida in Iraq fighters hit national police facilities in a coordinated attacks in Samarra, sparking two hours of fighting that saw three people killed and more than a dozen insurgents captured, police said Friday.

There were no details on insurgent casualties, but police arrested 14 suspects.
The masked attackers drove into the city at dusk Thursday in about 20 vehicles, including pickups with machine-guns, then split into small groups and assaulted four police checkpoints and a headquarters building, a Samarra police official said.

One policeman and two civilians - a woman and an 11-year-old girl - were killed in the fighting in the city 95 kilometers north of Baghdad, and nine others were injured including a police commando and three children. There were no details on insurgent casualties, but police arrested 14 suspects, the spokesman said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Nope, not 60, it was 600! Wild ones they were too! Of a fierce demeanor with shod with quality Nikes!
Posted by: Thomas Woof   2007-08-25 19:19  

#3  To me it sounds more like the Iraqi police screwed up somehow and made up a story about a big attack to explain it. That may not be the case, but I have serious doubts about the story as written.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-08-25 13:58  

#2  Sounds like a group of leaderless foreigners looking for a safe place to rest and regroup.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-08-25 12:51  

#1  Strange. An unusually large and complex attack but few casualties. How could they manage to kill only one of their (presumed) targets? Or, if civilians were the target, only two? And manage to get 14 of themselves arrested (20% of attack force)? It doesn't add up to me; something is incorrect about the story as written.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-08-25 12:16  

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