20 Die In Car Bomb At Khaldiya Police

Juan Cole 12/14/2003

20 Die in Car Bomb at Khaldiya Police Station

Guerrillas exploded a car bomb at an Iraqi police station in Khaldiya, west of Baghdad, on Sunday morning. Early reports gave the number of Iraqis killed as 20.

On Saturday the US military confirmed that one US soldier was killed and three wounded by a roadside bomb attack at Ramadi on Friday. Two Polish soldiers had also been wounded Friday in a similar attack.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page