Suicide bombers and other attackers killed at least 62 people in coordinated attacks on Iraqi security forces throughout the country on Wednesday, less than a week before US troops formally end combat operations. The bombings also wounded more than 250 people, underscoring the fragility of Iraq's security and the uncertainty of its political situation more than five months after an election that produced no outright winner and as yet no new government. The onslaught was launched a day after the US military in Iraq cut its strength to under 50,000.
Its spokesman, Major General Stephen Lanza, called the attacks "desperate attempts" to undermine faith in the Iraqi security forces. "The concern obviously right now is the number that occurred today and the size of the area they occurred in," Lanza told reporters.
The geographic spread of the attacks on the security forces showed that while weakened, the insurgency retains the ability to organise and carry out a nationwide assault involving dozens of operatives under the noses of the authorities. In Kut, 150km southeast of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed 30 policemen and wounded 87 after destroying a police station.
In Baghdad, a suicide truck bomber killed 15 people and wounded at least 56 others in an attack on another police station, interior ministry sources said.
Other attacks in Baghdad, Diyala province, Anbar province and the cities of Kirkuk and Mosul, brought the national death toll from the attacks to at least 62.
Its spokesman, Major General Stephen Lanza, called the attacks "desperate attempts" to undermine faith in the Iraqi security forces. "The concern obviously right now is the number that occurred today and the size of the area they occurred in," Lanza told reporters.
The geographic spread of the attacks on the security forces showed that while weakened, the insurgency retains the ability to organise and carry out a nationwide assault involving dozens of operatives under the noses of the authorities. In Kut, 150km southeast of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed 30 policemen and wounded 87 after destroying a police station.
In Baghdad, a suicide truck bomber killed 15 people and wounded at least 56 others in an attack on another police station, interior ministry sources said.
Other attacks in Baghdad, Diyala province, Anbar province and the cities of Kirkuk and Mosul, brought the national death toll from the attacks to at least 62.
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ReplyDeleteIt is really sad news and morethan 70 people are die and 150km southeast of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed 30 policemen and wounded 87 after destroying a police station.
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