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Blast Rocks Baghdad Police Station

NPR | By Ivan Watson

Published September 2, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

A car bomb explodes near the Baghdad police station, wounding at least 14 people and damaging the offices of the U.S.-appointed police chief. The blast comes four days after an explosion at a Najaf mosque killed a top Shiite cleric and at least 80 others. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson and Fawaz Gerges of Sarah Lawrence College.

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