NYT: Series of Insurgent Attacks Leaves 4 Iraqi Policemen Dead

[leftchick]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/international/middleeast/12iraq.html

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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 11 - Four Iraqi police officers were killed and eight American soldiers were wounded in a string of insurgent attacks across central and northern Iraq on Saturday, military officials said.

Two of the officers were killed when a group of insurgents overtook their patrol car between Baiji and Tikrit, north of the capital, and fired on them with assault rifles, said Master Sgt. Robert Powell, a spokesman for the First Infantry Division.

Three officers in the car were wounded in the attack, and the insurgents stole the officers' patrol car before fleeing, Sergeant Powell said. One of the officers killed was the operations officer for the police chief of Salahuddin Province.

The two other officers were killed in an attack in southern Baghdad on Saturday, an Interior Ministry official said.

[YDogg]

1. No wonder Kerik bailed ...

... his Iraq post.