Car bomb blast hits Baghdad's airport checkpoint: police

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD, June 20 (Xinhuanet) -- A car bomb detonated at the first checkpoint on the main road to Baghdad's airport on Monday, police said.

"The attack took place at about 1:45 p.m. (0945 GMT) when a carbomb detonated at the first checkpoint, manned by Iraqi policemen,on the airport road, causing several casualties," a police officer in Baghdad's airport police told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The United States and Iraqi forces have cordoned off the area.

Insurgents frequently attack US and Iraqi security forces on the main road to Baghdad International Airport, which has become the most dangerous road in the violence-torn country. Enditem

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/20/content_3110840.htm

[Sticky]

1. and then there's this:

40 killed, injured in an explosion in Irbil

IRBIL, June 20 (KUNA) -- At least 40 people were killed and injured when a booby-trapped car exploded in an Iraqi Police Station in Irbil Monday.

An Iraqi Police source said today that a suicide bomber blew up the car he was driving this morning in the middle of a training center behind the police station in Irbil.

An eyewitness said that he saw eight dead bodies and no less than 30 wounded on the scene of the incident.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=744392

[RebelOne]

2. Soon they are going to run out of cars to blow up. n/t

[Jacobin]

3. Okay, okay, this was the second-to-last "throe" of the insurgents

Dick Cheney

[underpants]

9. ^

And the next one will be too

That's sad and funny at the same time

[UpInArms]

4. progress is on the march and freedom is ringing

:sarcasm:

It is a good thing that the insurgency is weakening and we are "winning"

:sarcasm:

[Sticky]

5. We will soon need a forum for Iraqi Violence only

It's constant.

[underpants]

6. So THIS is what the last throes look like

I had been wondering

[Connie_Corleone]

7. Looks like the insurgency is almost over.

:sarcasm:

[jimshoes]

10. One or two more throes

and they're kaput!

[maddezmom]

8. Car bombs hit Baghdad and north Iraq, 29 dead

By Luke Baker
17 minutes ago



BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least eight car bombs exploded across Iraq on Monday killing at least 29 people as insurgents defied a widespread U.S.-Iraqi security clampdown.

In the Kurdish city of Arbil, a suicide bomber drove his car into a crowd of police recruits, killing at least 12 and wounding about 100 on a soccer field, officials said.

A second such attack in the normally more tranquil Kurdish region killed the security chief of the town of Halabja while another on an Iraqi army checkpoint in the disputed oil city of Kirkuk, just outside Kurdistan, killed four soldiers.

Five car bombs blew up in Baghdad, targeting mostly Iraqi police and soldiers. One struck the notorious airport road.

The wave of violence came as two influential U.S. senators criticized fellow Republican President Bush's handling of the two-year-old war and said Americans needed to be told that U.S. troops faced a "long, hard slog" in Iraq.

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more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050620/wl_nm/iraq_dc;_