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Guards Kill Two Women In Iraq
The Oldsmobile carrying four friends from a Christian church in Baghdad was hit by at least 35 rounds.
(By Joshua Partlow -- The Washington Post)
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The two car bombs detonated in the morning in Baiji, an oil refinery town, and killed at least seven people, including five Iraqi police officers, and wounded 21 others, according to Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly, a U.S. military spokesman in northern Iraq. Hospital officials said the death toll reached 19, with more people in critical condition.
One bomb blew up outside the home of the Baiji police chief, Col. Saad al-Nifoos, while the second, a tanker loaded with explosives, targeted Samir Ibrahim, the area leader of a movement known as the Awakening Council, a tribal organization formed to fight extremists. Both men survived. Another Sunni tribal leader allied with Americans in Salahuddin province was killed in the past month, Donnelly said.
"We see this as yet another drastic measure" by al-Qaeda in Iraq "trying to disrupt a process that's got some momentum," he said. "They're actually being marginalized by the people, and strategically this is a good sign."
The bombs destroyed and damaged homes, and rescue workers spent the morning pulling bodies from the rubble.
Ahmad Mahmmoud, a member of the governing council in Baiji, vowed to continue the fight to drive out al-Qaeda in Iraq, "whom I consider vampires sucking the blood of poor Iraqis."
Special correspondents Saad al-Izzi and Zaid Sabah in Baghdad and Muhanned Saif Aldin in Tikrit contributed to this report.
