Iraqis Catch 2 Americans Trying To Ignite Car Bomb

October 14, 2005

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Iraqis Catch 2 Americans Trying To Ignite Car Bomb

Irarwar.mirror-world.ru

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A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress

as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a

residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday.

Residents of western Baghdad's al-Ghazaliyah district told Quds Press

that the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their

Caprice car near a residential neighborhood in al-Ghazaliyah on

Tuesday afternoon (11 October 2005). Local people found they looked

suspicious so they detained the men before they could get away. That

was when they discovered that they were Americans and called the Iraqi

puppet police.

Five minutes after the arrival of the Iraqi puppet police on the scene

a large force of US troops showed up and surrounded the area. They put

the two Americans in one of their Humvees and drove away at high speed

to the astonishment of the residents of the area.

Quds Press spoke by telephone with a member of the al-Ghazaliyah

puppet police who confirmed the incident, saying that the two men were

non-Arab foreigners but declined to be more precise about their

nationality.

Quds Press pointed out that about a month ago, the Iraqi puppet police

in the southern Iraqi city of al-Basrah arrested two Britons whom they

accused of attempting to cause an explosion in the city. The Britons

were taken into custody by the Iraqi puppet police only to be broken

out of prison by an assault of British occupation troops. That

incident has created a tense relationship between the British and the

local puppet authorities in al-Basrah, Quds Press noted.

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