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December 27, 2008

Car Bomb Kills 22 in Baghdad
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Police say explosion at bus station in mostly Shi'ite district wounded
54 others 
Site of car bombing in northern Baghdad Shi'ite neighborhood of
Kazimiyah, 27 Dec 2008 Iraqi police say a car bomb has killed at least
22 people in Baghdad. They say the explosion at a bus station in a
mostly Shi'ite district wounded 54 others. On Friday, police in the
western province of al-Anbar imposed a curfew and went door to door
searching for escaped local al-Qaida leaders. The three militants broke
out of the al-Fursan police station in the city of Ramadi earlier in the
day, during a shootout that killed 13 people. Anbar's police chief,
Major-General Tareq Yusuf, says the clashes began when a prisoner told a
guard he was ill and asked to be escorted to a bathroom. The inmate
overpowered the guard, stole his weapon and killed him. Some of the
detainees escaped in the ensuing shootout. At least six police officers
and seven prisoners were killed. Several policemen were wounded. Ramadi
is the capital of Anbar province, which was once the heart of the Sunni
insurgency against U.S.-led forces following the overthrow of Saddam
Hussein's regime in 2003.Violence in the area has eased significantly
since local Sunni tribes began helping the U.S. military fight al-Qaida
and other militants in 2006. The United States handed security control
of Anbar to Iraq's government in September.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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