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To: Baton who wrote (16392)	12/14/2003 10:57:03 PM
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Bomb Outside Police Station Kills at Least 17, Injures 33 Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car outside a police station Sunday morning 50 miles west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 more, the U.S. military said. Also Sunday, an American soldier was killed trying to defuse a roadside bomb. The car bombing in Khaldiyah killed police officers, city workers and civilian bystanders, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jeff Swisher. No American soldiers were in the area when the bomb exploded and none was hurt in the blast, the U.S. military said. "About 8:30, a car bomb was detonated at Khaldiyah police station. We have some indication that it's a suicide bomber. But it's too early to give a final judgment," Col. Swisher told reporters at the scene. An emergency-room administrator at a hospital in the nearby city of Ramadi put the toll even higher, at 21 people killed and more than 20 injured. Many victims were Iraqi police officers and municipal workers who were sweeping the street outside the district police office, said hospital administrator Haitham Bahar Taha. Later in Baghdad, three barrels of gasoline mounted on a pickup truck exploded in Sunday, hours after U.S. officials announced the capture of Saddam Hussein, police officials said. No one was hurt. It wasn't clear whether the explosion was an accident or not. Witnesses said that a white four-wheel drive pickup truck, carrying the barrels of gasoline, caught fire setting off the explosions. The car was destroyed. Witnesses Ahmed Abdul-Rahman and Adel Majid said that two people wearing police uniforms were in the vehicle and fled the scene shortly before the explosions occurred. At the scene of the Khaldiyah car bombing, U.S. troops blocked off the area and two helicopters hovered overhead. U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police later surveyed the site of the blast, which left a huge crater in the road and collapsed a large section of the building's front wall. Several destroyed cars were scattered in the street nearby. A Khaldiyah policeman, Mohammed Abed, said an "unfamiliar" car was parked outside the station moments before the blast U.S. troops have been targeted by suicide bombers three times in the past week in attacks that left dozens of soldiers injured and one killed. Sunday's bombing was the latest of several police station blasts that have killed dozens of police officers in the past few months. Anti-U.S. assailants appear to target the police and other municipal officials because they are viewed as collaborators with the U.S.-led occupation.