Nje nga ngjarjet me te renda ndodhi sot ne Irak, ku jane vrare 68 rekruta te reja te policise me nje atentat. Kjo kontribuon me shume kundrejt nje kaosi total ne ate vend, ku tashme skepticizmi eshte me i madh se kurr.

Numri i Irakianeve te vrare qysh nga 28 Qershori eshte tashme rreth 160 vete.

Scores killed in Iraq bomb attack


Dozens of Iraqis were injured in the car bombing
At least 68 people have been killed in a car bomb explosion outside a police station in Iraq, exactly one month after the transfer of sovereignty.
Witnesses said a suicide bomber drove a car into a crowded market area, as men queued to join the police.

Dozens of people were also injured in the morning attack in Baquba, 65km (40 miles) north-east of Baghdad.

More than 160 Iraqis have been killed in attacks since the interim Iraqi government took power on 28 June.

There were other casualties on Wednesday, including seven Iraqi soldiers and 35 insurgents killed in fighting south of Baghdad.

Burning wreckage

Among those killed in the car bombing were 21 people travelling in a minibus, a health ministry official said.

BAQUBA ATTACKS

25 July - Clashes with police leave 13 insurgents dead
7 July - Car bomb during memorial service kills nine
27 June - Six national guards killed at checkpoint
26 June - Three die in grenade attack on political party offices
25 June - Three die in police station attack
24 June - 13 die in town amid co-ordinated blasts across Iraq


In pictures: Baquba attack
"I saw a car overtake a minibus and it slammed right into the queue of people," said Riad Abdul Latif, an internal affairs officer at the police station, who was 100m away when the bomb went off.

Police said young men had come to the police station to join the force. Because of the number of applicants, some had to queue outside.

After the blast, police put the dead and wounded in the back of pick-up trucks and drove them to hospital.

Men used hoses to douse the burning wreckage at the scene. Several bodies were also on fire amid the debris in what correspondents said were horrific scenes.

"God bless them, what have they done?" shouted one man.

'Fanatic'

Security forces have been a frequent target of attacks by groups opposed to the new government and US-led forces. Baquba, a mixed Sunni and Shia Muslim town, has experienced many attacks.

"We are facing people who are fanatic," Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi told the BBC after the Baquba bombing.

"They will do anything to inflict heavy casualties on our people."

Heavy fighting has taken place between Iraqi troops and insurgents south of Baghdad.

Officers with the multinational force working alongside local troops said seven Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 wounded during the fighting, near the town of Suwariya.

A Polish military spokesman said 35 insurgents were killed and 40 captured. He said the fighting erupted while the Iraqi troops were engaged in a joint operation with US special forces and Ukrainian troops.

Also on Wednesday, at least one person was killed in a rocket explosion on a busy street in Baghdad.

In the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, an Iraqi policeman was shot dead on Wednesday morning.

On Tuesday night, one US soldier was killed and three wounded in a roadside bomb in Balad Ruz, north of Baghdad.