Posted on 08/03/2004 4:21:41 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four Iraqi National Guardsman died and six were wounded Tuesday when a suicide car bomb rocked a checkpoint near the eastern city of Baquba, police said.
The suicide bomber was driving a 1979 Corona, and an Iraqi man believed to be involved in the attack was arrested, police said. Paperwork in the car indicated that the owner was Sudanese.
The bomber was seen following vehicles of U.S.-led multinational forces, and the car bomb was detonated as they passed the checkpoint in the city north of Baghdad.
The wounded guardsmen were evacuated to a multinational forces facility.
Last week, 70 people and dozens more were injured in a car bomb attack in Baquba. Police said the bomber drove a Toyota minibus into a marketplace near a police station, where would-be recruits were lined up outside, and detonated the explosives.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has attempted to communicate with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a senior U.S. military official said Tuesday, citing "credible intelligence."
The official said al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist operating in Iraq, made the attempts to communicate within the last "few weeks."
Intelligence indicates al-Zarqawi was trying to communicate about his strategy in Iraq for the insurgency movement against U.S. and Iraqi security forces, the official said.
The official could not confirm whether the communications attempt came in the form of electronic or courier-carried messages that were intercepted.
Al-Zarqawi and his associates have taken credit for a number of deadly terror attacks and kidnappings in Iraq.
Last month a Web site message purportedly linked to al-Zarqawi warned Muslims and Arab countries against sending troops to Iraq.
The United States has put a $25 million bounty on al-Zarqawi.
Six police officers in Najaf, including three bomb experts, have been taken hostage by members of the Mehdi Army,
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I thought that a courier was intercepted, ...wonder why this backtracks from that?
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