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Iraq
Roadside Bomb Kills 7 Iraqi Police
2007-10-17
Like most AP articles, this one is all over the place, with the headlined news being only a couple paragraphs. Hit the link to see the original piece. Who in the world trains journalists to write like this? I'm going to try and straighten it out, but I fear it's hopeless.
BAGHDAD (AP) - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, killing at least seven officers in a Shiite area south of Baghdad that has seen fierce clashes between rival militia factions.

Wednesday's deadliest attack occurred before dawn just east of Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, when a three-vehicle police convoy was struck by a roadside bomb. Authorities said seven policemen, including the patrol leader, were killed.

The area around Diwaniyah has seen recent clashes among rival Shiite groups, along with violence against U.S.-led forces. Suspected militia fighters fired mortars at two military bases and shot at a Polish helicopter south of Baghdad on Monday, prompting a gunbattle that left as five Iraqi civilians dead and scores wounded, including two Polish soldiers.
Now, on to another news tidbit:
To the north, a suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck struck a checkpoint manned by Kurdish forces in a volatile province where U.S. commanders have decided to begin the drawdown of American forces, marking a turning point in the mission. The attack in a mountainous area near the Iranian border killed at least one Kurdish soldier and wounding more than 10 others, a spokesman for the Kurdish forces said.

The spokesman, Jabbar Yawir, said the dead and wounded men were part of a brigade that arrived in the region last month as part of a U.S.- Iraqi security crackdown that began in February.

Iraqi forces are frequently targeted by extremists on both sides of the sectarian divide trying to deal a blow to U.S.-led efforts to enable the national troops to take over security so American forces can go home.

Police officials in Diyala province said two Kurdish soldiers had been killed and 12 wounded in the 8:30 a.m. attack near Jalula, 80 miles northeast of Baghdad. Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack against the Kurdish troops, but the suicide bombing bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida in Iraq, which has staged several attacks recently after promising an offensive to coincide with the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which ended this week.
Snip the rest, which consisted of news fragments glued together.
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