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Explosions In Baquba Baghdad Ap Reports

Juan Cole 02/27/2004

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Explosions in Baquba, Baghdad

AP reports that ‘ In Baqouba . . . an explosion occurred Thursday in the city center and witnesses said three police cars were on fire. ‘. It continues,

‘ The U.S. command said [a] fuel truck, assigned to the 1st Armored Division, was hit by a roadside bomb in the western Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib. “A convoy of U.S. Army trucks was attacked,” Mahir Obeid, said. “One of them was blown up by a roadside bomb while another was hit with a (rocket propelled grenade). Both of them caught fire.” ‘

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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

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