Rebels attack Iraqi police near Tikrit, car bomb explodes in Baghdad
By Associated Press, 12/28/2004 02:21
Iraq (AP) Insurgents killed 12 Iraqi policemen in an attack on a near the city of Tikrit, and a car bomb targeting the home of a senior Iraqi National Guard officer wounded nine people in northern Baghdad, officials said Tuesday.
Arkan Mohammed, a government official in Tikrit, said 12 men had died when gunmen attacked a police station 12 miles south of the city, Saddam Hussein's hometown.
U.S. military spokesman Capt. Bill Coppernoll confirmed that there had been attack on police near Tikrit, but he could not provide casualty figures.
The car bomb in Baghdad targeted the home of a senior Iraqi National Guard officer in the Azimiyah neighborhood, said Maj. Shaheed Attiyah of the Iraqi police. Nine of his guards and passers-by were injured, three of them seriously.
Insurgents frequently launch attacks the interim government's security forces, killing hundreds so far this year.