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Suicide bomber kills 15 at iraq police station { February 24 2005 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-022405iraq_lat,0,5628283.story?coll=la-home-headlines http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-022405iraq_lat,0,5628283.story?coll=la-home-headlines Suicide Bomber Kills 15 at Iraq Police Station By John Daniszewski Times Staff Writer 9:43 AM PST, February 24, 2005 BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber disguised as a police officer drove into a police station parking area this morning, killing at least 15 people in the northern city of Tikrit. The victims were members of the new Iraqi police force, whose station is along the main road through Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home city. The bomber struck at a busy time, 8 a.m., when police were changing shifts, police Lt. Col. Saad Dahan Abid said. About a dozen cars caught fire. The police official said the attacker was able to slip into the station undetected because he was wearing a police lieutenant's uniform. An official of the nearby Tikrit Teaching Hospital said his reports indicated that at least 15 people were killed and 22 people were injured, some seriously. Tikrit is a provincial capital about 110 miles north of Baghdad, along the Tigris River. It was heavily favored in the time of Hussein's rule, and had been a center of activity for anti-American insurgents. At least four other police were killed in separate attacks across the country, including another suicide car bomb assault on a police convoy in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, the Associated Press reported. A Times special correspondent contributed from Tikrit, as did the Associated Press.

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