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Suicide Car Bombing in Baghdad

Aired January 06, 2004 - 11:14   ET

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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: A suicide car bombing in a police station in Iraq today. Let's bring in our correspondent Karl Penhaul on duty this morning, or this afternoon, this evening in Baghdad.
Hi, Karl.

KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi. Hi, Daryn.

Coalition officials this afternoon announcing the capture of number 54 on the deck of cards. That's the coalition list of Iraq's most wanted fugitives. Kanis Suhan (ph), when we last pictured him, was a few days before the start of war. At that time, he was the Baath Party chief in the town of Karbala, akin to a kind of military spokesman in the region. But coalition military officials say he then went into the so-called Sunni Triangle and was helping out in the anti-coalition insurgency there. The coalition say that they captured him on Sunday in a combined operation between U.S. paratroopers and special forces.

General Mark Kimmit says this serves as a warning to what he calls other jihadist, terrorists and resistance fighters that their day of reckoning is near.

Now this announcement, Daryn, comes just a few hours after a devastating bomb explosion in the city of Baquba, just north of Baghdad. A suicide bomber strapped an explosive to the gas pedal of his car and drove it into a police station. General Kimmit has told us that in that blast, five people died, two civilians, one policeman and two members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, and 29 other people were wounded in that attack, the second in this town in just a few days.

HEMMER: Karl Penhaul in Baghdad. Karl, thank you for that.

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Aired January 6, 2004 - 11:14   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: A suicide car bombing in a police station in Iraq today. Let's bring in our correspondent Karl Penhaul on duty this morning, or this afternoon, this evening in Baghdad.
Hi, Karl.

KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi. Hi, Daryn.

Coalition officials this afternoon announcing the capture of number 54 on the deck of cards. That's the coalition list of Iraq's most wanted fugitives. Kanis Suhan (ph), when we last pictured him, was a few days before the start of war. At that time, he was the Baath Party chief in the town of Karbala, akin to a kind of military spokesman in the region. But coalition military officials say he then went into the so-called Sunni Triangle and was helping out in the anti-coalition insurgency there. The coalition say that they captured him on Sunday in a combined operation between U.S. paratroopers and special forces.

General Mark Kimmit says this serves as a warning to what he calls other jihadist, terrorists and resistance fighters that their day of reckoning is near.

Now this announcement, Daryn, comes just a few hours after a devastating bomb explosion in the city of Baquba, just north of Baghdad. A suicide bomber strapped an explosive to the gas pedal of his car and drove it into a police station. General Kimmit has told us that in that blast, five people died, two civilians, one policeman and two members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, and 29 other people were wounded in that attack, the second in this town in just a few days.

HEMMER: Karl Penhaul in Baghdad. Karl, thank you for that.

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