2 Car Bombers Attack Iraqi Police, as Insurgency Continues
By IAN FISHER
and CHRISTINE HAUSER
Published: December 15, 2003
AGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 15 — Two suicide bombers exploded cars outside Iraqi police stations today, killing at least six people and themselves, and wounding 22, in an apparent sign that the insurgency aimed at American occupation forces and the Iraqis who work with them is continuing despite the capture of Saddam Hussein.
The bombings in the Husseiniya and Amariya districts of Baghdad followed a similar car bomb attack on Sunday in which 17 people were killed in Khalidiya, about 60 miles west of the capital. That attack occurred just 12 hours after the former Iraqi leader was pulled from an underground hovel in northern Iraq.
The video images on Sunday of Mr. Hussein — disheveled, bearded and in the hands of the American forces — set off celebrations in Iraqi streets. But the capture also raised questions about what will happen to the resistance by the guerrilla fighters staging attacks, and whether it will continue.
American military officials and some experts say that in the short term, there is a good chance that the guerrillas, who appear to be organized in cells rather than under a central authority, will retaliate.
"I don't think we will see an immediate end to the violence here," said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of American forces in Iraq, in remarks to CNN today. |
