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Car Bomb Has Gone Off in Central Iraqi Town of Ba'qubah
Aired January 14, 2004 - 05:03 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Developing news, too, out of Iraq overnight. A car bomb has gone off in the central Iraqi town of Ba'qubah, a hot spot for insurgents. There is at least one death and some injuries to several Iraqi police officers.
Karl Penhaul live in Baghdad with more for you now -- hello, Karl.
KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Our team on the ground in Ba'qubah has been talking to police commanders and hospital officials this morning. So far, we have confirmed details of two civilians dead, 24 others injured. The police commander also says that 12 of his men were injured in the explosion. It's not clear whether those 12 are included in the figures that hospital officials have given us.
It also appears that one man, the attacker, a suicide bomber driving a green Toyota sedan, was also killed in that explosion.
According to the police commander, that green Toyota sedan passed through a checkpoint near the police station then speeded up. As it did so, the lone driver then detonated the charge.
It's the second attack within a few days in Ba'qubah. On Friday, shortly after Friday prayers, as worshippers were leaving a Shiite mosque, an attacker detonated a bomb inside a propane gas cylinder, killing at least six people then.
Ba'qubah, about 65 kilometers north of Baghdad, is within the so- called Sunni Triangle and it has seen a large number of insurgent attacks in the past, both on civilians and on coalition forces in the area.
In a separate incident, coalition military sources with the 4th Infantry Division have told us that in an overnight raid in the town of Samarra, again, north of Baghdad, four men were arrested. All four, according to coalition military sources, are relatives of Izzat Ibrahim Al-Duri. He was the right hand man of Saddam Hussein and is now believed to be one of the key figures leading the anti-coalition insurgency across Iraq.
We're told by the coalition military source that Izzat Ibrahim was not in the area at the time, but that they hope by arresting his relatives, that that will give leads as to his whereabouts.
Karl Penhaul, CNN, Baghdad.
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Aired January 14, 2004 - 05:03 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Developing news, too, out of Iraq overnight. A car bomb has gone off in the central Iraqi town of Ba'qubah, a hot spot for insurgents. There is at least one death and some injuries to several Iraqi police officers.
Karl Penhaul live in Baghdad with more for you now -- hello, Karl.
KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Our team on the ground in Ba'qubah has been talking to police commanders and hospital officials this morning. So far, we have confirmed details of two civilians dead, 24 others injured. The police commander also says that 12 of his men were injured in the explosion. It's not clear whether those 12 are included in the figures that hospital officials have given us.
It also appears that one man, the attacker, a suicide bomber driving a green Toyota sedan, was also killed in that explosion.
According to the police commander, that green Toyota sedan passed through a checkpoint near the police station then speeded up. As it did so, the lone driver then detonated the charge.
It's the second attack within a few days in Ba'qubah. On Friday, shortly after Friday prayers, as worshippers were leaving a Shiite mosque, an attacker detonated a bomb inside a propane gas cylinder, killing at least six people then.
Ba'qubah, about 65 kilometers north of Baghdad, is within the so- called Sunni Triangle and it has seen a large number of insurgent attacks in the past, both on civilians and on coalition forces in the area.
In a separate incident, coalition military sources with the 4th Infantry Division have told us that in an overnight raid in the town of Samarra, again, north of Baghdad, four men were arrested. All four, according to coalition military sources, are relatives of Izzat Ibrahim Al-Duri. He was the right hand man of Saddam Hussein and is now believed to be one of the key figures leading the anti-coalition insurgency across Iraq.
We're told by the coalition military source that Izzat Ibrahim was not in the area at the time, but that they hope by arresting his relatives, that that will give leads as to his whereabouts.
Karl Penhaul, CNN, Baghdad.
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