Iraqi police find car bomb in Baghdad [View All]

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Two bomb attacks have been foiled in Baghdad, with police arresting a Syrian and a pair of Iraqis in an explosives-laden vehicle, a police officer told AFP.

A white Toyota had been spotted driving outside a former compound of ousted leader Saddam Hussein's family, now used by the US military, and was stopped by police who found the vehicle packed with explosives, said Colonel Abbas Nasser Hussein.

A team of US military experts were brought in to blow up the car in the city's southern Dura district.

Two of the men inside the car were Iraqi and the third, according to the New Iraqi Army, was a Syrian, Colonel Hussein said.

One of the men said he had been paid $200 to carry out the attack.

"There will be no security while Saddam's followers destabilise the country," Colonel Hussein said.

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