John Gaquin wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message

The terrorist bombings restarted in Iraq
right after it was announced that Saddam had been captured.

Simply not true, Harry, stop perpetuating this lie. It was determined
rather quickly that what you continuously refer to as terrorist bombing (I
think you also claimed 17 dead a while ago) was in reality gasoline
canisters ignited by stray bullets fired in celebration [an unfortunate
side-effect of this local custom] with no injuries.




Really?

Hmmm:

Car Bomb Kills At Least 17 Iraqi Police




The Associated Press

December 14, 2003, 6:29 PM EST

KHALDIYAH, Iraq -- A suspected suicide attacker detonated a car bomb
outside an Iraqi police station Sunday near Baghdad, killing at least 17
people and wounding 33 others, hours before the announcement of Saddam
Hussein's capture, the U.S. military said. No Americans were involved.

Also Sunday, an American soldier was killed trying to defuse a roadside
bomb. In the evening, after celebrations in the capital over the news of
Hussein's arrest, three barrels of gasoline mounted on a pickup truck
exploded in central Baghdad. No one was hurt, and it was not clear
whether the explosion was an accident or an attack.

The device that killed the U.S. soldier was placed on a telephone pole
next to the road near al-Haswah, 25 miles south of Baghdad. The soldier,
an explosives disposal specialist, approached the bomb to disarm it when
it exploded.

He was the 452nd soldier to die in Iraq, according to Defense Department
statistics; 313 service members have been killed by hostile action since
the start of the war on March 20.

The car bombing in Khaldiyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, killed police
officers, city workers and civilian bystanders, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jeff
Swisher said. No American soldiers were in the area when the bomb
exploded, the military said.

An emergency room administrator at a hospital in the nearby city of
Ramadi put the death toll even higher -- 21 killed and more than 20
wounded. Many victims were Iraqi police officers and workers sweeping
the street outside the district police office, said hospital
administrator Haitham Bahar Taha.

The attack took place after Hussein was arrested near the city of Tikrit
to the north Saturday evening, but before Iraqi and U.S. officials
announced the capture.


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