Iraqi National Police Sergeant Haider Shenshen, left, confers with an Iraqi interpreter, who keeps his face covered to disguise his identity. NPR Iraqi National Police Sergeant Haider Shenshen, left, confers with an Iraqi interpreter, who keeps his face covered to disguise his identity. NPR |
Gunmen change tactics to kill 19 at British-run police school By Chris Johnston and Michael Evans, Defence Editor [EXCERPT] GUNMEN killed 17 Iraqi police instructors and two translators yesterday afternoon as they travelled home from work at a British-run police academy training school near Basra in southern Iraq. It was the first incident of its kind in the south of the country and resembled attacks on police in Baghdad. A senior British military source last night described the attack as “a complete change in tactics and not something we have seen down there before”. |