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Suicide bomber kills 36 Iraqi army recruits
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-02-11 14:13

A suicide car bomb exploded at an Iraqi army recruitment center in central Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 36 recruits, in the second deadly attack against Iraqis working with U.S. occupation forces in 24 hours.

"It was a suicide attack by a single male who was killed," U.S. Colonel Ralph Baker told Reuters at the scene. He said 36 recruits were killed and 10 to 15 people were badly wounded.

A U.S. military vehicle in Baghdad shortly after an explosion near an Iraqi army recruiting center Wednesday. [APTV]
"It was aimed strictly at Iraqis," he said.

Around 50 people were killed Tuesday in a similar attack against Iraqis outside a police station south of Baghdad.

The U.S. military said Wednesday's attack occurred at around 7:40 a.m. (11:40 p.m. EST Tuesday) when a white car drove into the new Iraqi army facility and exploded.

U.S. troops cordoned off the area known as Muthana Airport, a small air facility abandoned for decades but recently used by the new Iraqi army.

Offices of a fundamentalist Shi'ite Muslim group are situated nearby.

The attacks followed a pattern of targeting Iraqis seen as collaborating with the U.S. occupation. Twin suicide bombings in northern Iraq against two Kurdish parties allied with the United States killed more than 100 people on February 1.

Tuesday's suicide car bomb exploded among civilians who had queued outside a police station in the town of Iskandariya, 25 miles south of the capital, to apply for jobs.

At least 75 people were wounded and the police station and an adjacent court were badly damaged.

Iraqi officials say 300 policemen -- who have been regular targets of suicide bombings -- have been killed by insurgents. The U.S.-trained force is a pillar of U.S. plans to put Iraqis in charge of security before a transfer of sovereignty.

IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEND

"It's impossible to defend in every location against every conceivable kind of attack at every time of the day or night," Defense Secretary Ronald Rumsfeld told reporters in Washington after Tuesday's blast.

At the same briefing, Air Force General Richard Myers, chairman of the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he was optimistic about security despite the attack.

"We continue to be optimistic about the situation on the ground in Iraq." There has been "a lot of success," Myers said, in bringing stability and security to Iraq ahead of the June 30 target date for handing over power to an Iraqi government.

Rumsfeld said between 150,000 and 210,000 Iraqis were working in the security forces, adding they were getting better at it all the time.

"That does not mean that there will not be people that are killed. I mean, look at any city on the face of the earth. Everyone's against homicide. And yet in every...major city on the face of the earth, homicides occur every week. Hundreds occur every year in every city.

"Now, why if we have all those policemen, why if we have everyone against homicides, do they still occur? The answer is because human beings are human beings."

The bombings came after U.S. officials in Iraq said an Islamic militant with links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network was plotting to ignite a civil war to undermine efforts to hand over power to Iraqis.

But Myers said Tuesday the letter's authenticity was still being evaluated.

"I haven't read it. I don't know if it's authentic. People who've read it think it is," Rumsfeld added.

U.S. troops said Monday they had seized a computer disk containing a letter from Abu Musab Zarqawi, linked by the United States to Ansar al-Islam, outlining plans to destabilize Iraq.

The United States says the group, which operates in northern Iraq, is affiliated to al Qaeda.

 
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