Two police officers shot dead in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1E587A95-A4F5-4528-9E4D-CFDC40419FDC.htm

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Two police officers have been killed in seperate incidents in occupied Iraq.

Aljazeera correspondent said on Saturday the police chief of Kufa, Saeed Tryak, was killed and one of his escorts injured when their car was attacked at al-Adala in Najaf, south east of Baghdad.

The police chief of al-Mahmudiya in Baghdad, Usama Husayn, was also killed when he was shot at by men in police uniforms. The attack took place when he was leaving his house in al-Khadra neighbourhood of Baghdad.

Also in the capital, two people were injured when a rocket was fired at a residential area. Police said a house was damaged in the explosion and two men inside it injured. Angry residents blamed the Americans for the attack.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. that'snow 602 Iraq police officers killed since its formation 4 months ago

[leftchick]

2. make that 4 killed .....

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/03/1080941726647.html

Insurgents kill four Iraqi police, two civilians
April 4, 2004
The Sun-Herald

Baghdad: Two attacks on Iraqi police south of Baghdad yesterday left four people dead. In the capital, insurgents fired a rocket at a house, killing two civilians and wounding four.

An explosion near a US military convoy near Khalis town, 70 km north-east of Baghdad, wounded a civilian and damaged a Humvee vehicle yesterday, Iraqi officials said. A policeman who saw the blast said it came from within a car left beside the road.

A convoy of Salvadoran soldiers was attacked in the southern city of Najaf on Friday, wounding three troops. About 380 troops from El Salvador are in Iraq as part of the Spanish-led Plus Ultra brigade.

In west Baghdad yesterday, a rocket slammed into a house in a residential suburb, killing two people and wounding four, said a doctor at Yarmouk hospital.

South of Baghdad, assailants fired on a vehicle carrying Colonel Wisam Hussein, police chief of Mahmoudiya town, as he was returning from the capital killing him and his driver, Lieutenant Ala'a Hussein said.

Later yesterday, six assailants attacked a police patrol in the town, killing one policeman and wounding three others, police officer Khaldoon al-Gurairi said. A 60-year-old bystander was also killed.

The killings came a day after a police commander in the southern city of Kufa was shot and killed while driving.

[saigon68]

3. Looks like the "Resistance Forces" are purging the collaborators

This seems to have happened in France and Norway in WW 2 in approx 1943

So its not a fresh, novel idea.

Maybe BilgeWater USA can provide every policeman with 2 or 3 "Contractors" to keep them safe.