2 Car Bombers Attack Iraqi Police, as Insurgency Continues:
"Two powerful car bombs exploded at police stations in Baghdad today, killing at least six Iraqi officers and announcing that the insurgency here has not ended with the capture of Saddam Hussein.

'People did this to say, `We can do this even though you caught Saddam,' ' said Salem Abed Ali, 40, who was rocked at his breakfast table this morning, along with his wife and two children, when a bomb exploded across the street, at a police station in the Husseiniya neighborhood. 'They want to keep battling inside Iraqi lands.'"

In his national address on Sunday, President Bush cautioned Americans that the "capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean the end of violence in Iraq." His warning appeared to be confirmed in the rubble, shredded cars and bloodied bits of human being at the sites of the two bombings today, one of them at a place where American military investigators work but had not yet shown up for the day.

Against the images of a bedraggled and helpless-looking Mr. Hussein printed in Iraqi newspapers and played endlessly on satellite television, the attacks also confronted Iraqis, as well as the American troops doing the fighting, with the question of just what kind of force is mounting the attacks.…

United States officials, conceding that their knowledge of the insurgents is weak, have blamed the attacks largely on loyalists to Mr. Hussein, Iraqi Islamic extremists and Muslims from outside Iraq. The assumption has been that some percentage has been fighting for Mr. Hussein's return to power, and the question in the coming weeks will be whether the insurgency will grow or shrink with Mr. Hussein's return to power no longer a realistic prospect. Some Iraqis believe Mr. Hussein's capture may actually fuel the insurgency.…

In Tikrit, where support for Mr. Hussein remains strong, American soldiers today dispersed crowds of people expressing anger at his arrest. In Ramadi and Khaldiya, two other strongholds for Mr. Hussein west of Baghdad, huge crowds chanted in support of him and fired off weapons this evening, apparently because of rumors that he had not in fact been captured.

There were also reports of exchanges of gunfire with passing American troops in Ramadi, possibly resulting in Iraqi casualties, though that could not immediately be confirmed.…

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