Suicide Attack Using Watermelons to Hide Explosives Kills 6 in N. Iraq

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBLW1S2FAE.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide bomber who hid explosives beneath watermelons in a pickup truck slammed into a police headquarters in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing six people and wounding eight others, police and hospital officials said.

The explosion partially destroyed Bab al-Toob police station in central Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said. The blast happened at about 6:30 a.m. in a busy shopping district that includes a market.

Policeman Mohammed Hussein Ali, 30, said he witnessed the attack in which a man who seemed to be driving watermelons to the market detonated his pickup truck just outside the two-story building.

All the roads were blocked at the time except for one that leads to the market, and the pickup truck was allowed to pass through a checkpoint, he said. The bomber detonated the explosive near a rear wall adjacent to the station.

[Bluebear]

1. And now Bush is negotiating with these people? n/t

[Spinzonner]

2. You don't have to make peace with your friends

You do with your enemies.

And the reports indicate that the 'negotiations' are with native insurgents, not the Al Quedas and other foreign terrorists - those who have a real stake in Iraq's future, whatever their tactics.

And it's not clear whether the watermelons are foreign terrorists or native insurgents.

[Bluebear]

4. Then why the big secret?

If he were to negotiate with "native insurgents", why not come out and say it? And have these native insurgents not killed Americans?

[icymist]

3. How can such an attack be diverted?

Or at least detected before any more of our troops be harmed?

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