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To: PartyTime who wrote (5823)	3/10/2004 9:53:17 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 173976

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen posing as police killed two American civilians and their Iraqi translator — all employees of the U.S.-led coalition — at a makeshift checkpoint south of Baghdad, the coalition said Wednesday. In another southern area, four Iraqi policemen died in a shootout with a local militia. The deaths at the checkpoint came when the gunmen stopped the car Tuesday night outside Hillah, 35 miles south of Baghdad, Polish Col. Robert Strzelecki said. The attackers shot dead the passengers and took the vehicle, he said. Polish troops later intercepted the car, arrested five Iraqis in it and found the bodies inside, said Strzelecki, speaking from the Camp Babylon headquarters of the Polish-led multinational force in Iraq. In Baghdad, a spokesman for the coalition that governs Iraq confirmed the deaths. Authorities did not immediately release the identities of those killed. Checkpoints manned by Iraqis or coalition forces are common on Iraq’s main roads, and this appeared to be the first time gunmen have posed as police at a roadblock. 4 Iraqi police killed in gunbattle Further south, Iraqi police tried Tuesday night to enter a building where a Shiite militia was holding two civilians in the city of Nasiriyah, a coalition spokesman said. In a gunbattle, four Iraqi policemen were killed and two wounded. The standoff finally ended when Italian security forces stormed the building, rescued the civilians and arrested eight militia members, the spokesman said. One Italian carabinieri officer was slightly injured. The militia, known as Citizens’ Security Group, acts as a security force for a number of Shiite political parties. Such militias, which in some towns try to enforce a brand of Islamic law, often have tense relations with the U.S.-trained Iraqi police force. In Baqouba, northwest of Baghdad, a bomb went off near the offices of Iraq’s largest Shiite party, wounding two people, said Haithem al-Husseini, a party spokesman. Al-Husseini, of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, blamed the attack on former Saddam Hussein loyalists and terrorists “trying to spread chaos in the country.” msnbc.msn.com

To: PartyTime who wrote (5823)	3/10/2004 9:03:56 PM
From: laura_bush	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

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