BLAST HITS BAGHDAD CENTRAL POLICE STATTION
A suspected car bomb has ripped through a main police station in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Police say there are casualties, and one resident reported seeing two wounded policemen taken away from the scene.
On Monday, two US military police officers were killed and one wounded when their vehicle hit an explosive device on a road on the southern outskirts of Baghdad. Correspondents say the latest violence heightens the climate of insecurity in the country caused by a spate of devastating car bomb attacks and almost daily assaults on coalition forces.
Witnesses say a large explosion rocked the Rasafa police station shortly after 1100 (0700 GMT), igniting a large fire and sending black smoke billowing into the sky. First Lieutenant Nihad Majeed told Reuters the blast at the Rasafa police station was caused by a car bomb.
It came just as the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) announced the death of two US military police officers in a bomb attack on Monday. "The two officers were killed and one wounded when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device on a main supply route south of Baghdad," said a spokeswoman. The latest deaths take to at least 67 the number of US soldiers killed in guerrilla-style attacks in Iraq since major combat was declared over on 1 May.
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BBC News 10.00am 2 Sept 03
I'm intrigued as to why Saddam announced on Al Jazeera TV that he wasn't responsible for the assassination of the Ayatollah on Friday last. I'm inclined to believe him. He's not afraid to take credit. By his silence, he took the blame for the bombing of the UN headquarters. I don't believe the Americans' claim that Al Qaeda or Wahhabi elements are entering Iraq and causing terrorist incidents. That's just sheer propaganda in order to ignore the increasing activities of Saddam's terrorists. I'm inclined to believe, therefore, that the Ayatollah's assassination was the work of extremist Shias or other Islamic sects within Iraq. If so, then I suppose we will see some further assassinations of the new Governing Council quite soon for being quislings.
Besides Dr Jawad on Channel 4 News last night, another Iraqi professor (at a university in Syria) on BBC Newsnight whose name I didn't catch opined that civil war in Iraq between Shias and Sunnis is now very close.
Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath, England, <www.evolutionary-economics.org>
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