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At Least Six Dead, 35 Wounded in Kirkuk
Aired February 23, 2004 - 06:30 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: A car bomb explodes in Kirkuk at an Iraqi police station. There are deaths to report this morning. It happens as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrives in Baghdad and as the U.N. mission to Iraq prepares to release its report on Iraqi elections.
Let's head live to Baghdad for more and Brent Sadler.
Hello -- Brent.
BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello. Good morning, Carol.
This was another suicide bombing. Again, it was the Iraqi police station in Kirkuk, the northern city in the Kurdish area there that came under attack. It was a vehicle packed with explosives, very similar to what we've seen in the past recently here.
Apparently, the bomber was able to crash an outer barrier protecting the police station and got partway at least inside the compound itself. This happened at a busy time in the morning when police officers were giving their men orders for the day.
Now, it seems that many of the casualties -- and the latest figures we have, at least six dead and dozens of others wounded -- and that the brunt of the casualties were taken among Iraqi civilians. And this has been a pattern in this recent spate of suicide bomb attacks against emerging Iraqi security forces, like the police today and also the newly emerging Iraqi army.
And what we understand from U.S. military officials here -- and this is one of the issues that Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of state of defense, will be talking to his people on the ground here -- is that these attacks more and more are turning away, it seems, from old loyalists of the ousted Saddam Hussein regime, turning more and more to support and implementation of terror attacks against -- being committed by international terror groups with possible links to al Qaeda -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Brent Sadler reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
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Aired February 23, 2004 - 06:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: A car bomb explodes in Kirkuk at an Iraqi police station. There are deaths to report this morning. It happens as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrives in Baghdad and as the U.N. mission to Iraq prepares to release its report on Iraqi elections.
Let's head live to Baghdad for more and Brent Sadler.
Hello -- Brent.
BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello. Good morning, Carol.
This was another suicide bombing. Again, it was the Iraqi police station in Kirkuk, the northern city in the Kurdish area there that came under attack. It was a vehicle packed with explosives, very similar to what we've seen in the past recently here.
Apparently, the bomber was able to crash an outer barrier protecting the police station and got partway at least inside the compound itself. This happened at a busy time in the morning when police officers were giving their men orders for the day.
Now, it seems that many of the casualties -- and the latest figures we have, at least six dead and dozens of others wounded -- and that the brunt of the casualties were taken among Iraqi civilians. And this has been a pattern in this recent spate of suicide bomb attacks against emerging Iraqi security forces, like the police today and also the newly emerging Iraqi army.
And what we understand from U.S. military officials here -- and this is one of the issues that Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of state of defense, will be talking to his people on the ground here -- is that these attacks more and more are turning away, it seems, from old loyalists of the ousted Saddam Hussein regime, turning more and more to support and implementation of terror attacks against -- being committed by international terror groups with possible links to al Qaeda -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Brent Sadler reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
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