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Accounts Differ on Raid in Baghdad
Residents gather at the scene of a car bombing in Baghdad that killed three people. They were among at least 18 Iraqis who died in bombings and mortar attacks yesterday. Police also found 32 bodies scattered across the capital.
(By Hadi Mizban -- Associated Press)
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In Washington on Tuesday, a senior Pentagon official said Iraqi insurgents appear to have adopted a new tactic since the start of the security crackdown, using children in a suicide attack Sunday, the Associated Press reported.
Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations on the Joint Staff, told reporters that a vehicle was waved through a U.S. military checkpoint because two children were visible in the back seat. Barbero said this was the first reported use of children in a suicide car bombing in Baghdad, the AP reported.
Three Iraqi bystanders were killed in the attack, near a marketplace in northern Baghdad, in addition to the two children, and seven people were injured, officials later said, according to the AP.
Also Tuesday, Iraqi police forces and tribal fighters in Anbar province stormed suspected insurgent hide-outs in midday raids that turned into a three-hour shootout with insurgents, according to Fallujah police Capt. Mohamad al-Dulaimy and the Interior Ministry. The fighting left 32 insurgents and eight police officers dead, Dulaimy said.
After the battle, witnesses said, police patrols rolled through Fallujah firing celebratory shots into the air. But Sabah al-Isawi, a local political leader in Fallujah, said the battle left many residents even more scared. Some families fled town late Tuesday, fearing revenge killings.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and another was wounded when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb as they patrolled in southern Baghdad, the military reported. Bombings killed at least 18 other people across Iraq on Tuesday, authorities said.
In the northern town of Ouja, near Tikrit, hundreds of people gathered Tuesday afternoon to watch as former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan was buried near the graves of Saddam Hussein, Hussein's two sons and two of the former president's deputies. Ramadan was hanged early Tuesday in Baghdad for his role in the retaliatory killings of 148 men and boys from the village of Dujail following a 1982 assassination attempt against Hussein.
Special correspondents Saad al-Izzi and Waleed Saffar in Baghdad, Muhanned Saif Aldin in Tikrit and other Washington Post staff in Iraq contributed to this report.
