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November 23, 2003
Release Number: 03-11-39
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IRAQI POLICE STATIONS ATTACKED
TIKRIT, IRAQ- In two separate incidents, car bombs were detonated near police stations in Ba'Qubah and Kahnbanisad Nov 22.
Initial reports indicate that seven Iraqi police officers and two civilians were killed and 20 people were wounded in the 8:10 a.m. explosion in Ba'qubah. In the other incident, six police officers and three civilians, including a four-year-old girl, were killed and 10 were wounded in the 8:30 a.m. explosion in Kahnbanisad. Three police officers are still missing in Ba'qubah. No Coalition soldiers were injured.
Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno, commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse, expressed his deepest condolences to the families and friends of the murdered police officers and civilians and voiced his outrage, calling the attack a "criminal act." "The people responsible for this Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence have no regard for innocent lives," Odierno said. "The families of the police officers killed, along with tens of thousands of other police officers who have taken an oath to bring security and stability to Iraq can take solace in the fact that because of their sacrifice, Iraq will know peaceful freedom and enduring democracy."
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