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Security official resigns after Tikrit bombings
06/06/2011 16:50 Salahaddin, June 6 (AKnews) – Brigadier General Jassim Hussein Jabara, director of National Security in Salahaddin province, resigned today after two major terrorist attacks in the province’s capital Tikrit on Friday and today.
Jabara told AKnews, “I submitted my resignation today to the Ministry of National Security as a consequence of the security breaches in the province.”
Earlier today, at least 13 people were killed and up to 19 people were injured when a car bomb went off at the gate to the area of the Presidential Palaces of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in Tikrit. According to Reuters news agency, the explosion occurred when the control of the checkpoint was exchanged between police and army, which was supervised by military officers.
lot of victims were military personnel, including a colonel who served as head of military intelligence in Tikrit.
On Friday, two consecutive bombs outside a mosque and in a hospital in Tikrit had killed 17 and 6 respectively, 72 were injured.
This week’s attacks were Tikrit’s deadliest since March 29, when 58 people died in an hours-long firefight between al-Qaeda and security forces at the provincial council’s offices.
The attacks question Iraq’s ability to provide security just a few months before U.S. troops will leave the country.
The “U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement” (SOFA) from 2008 has set a time-table for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. According to SOFA, the last U.S. soldier has to leave by December 31st, 2011.
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06/06/2011 16:50 Salahaddin, June 6 (AKnews) – Brigadier General Jassim Hussein Jabara, director of National Security in Salahaddin province, resigned today after two major terrorist attacks in the province’s capital Tikrit on Friday and today.
Jabara told AKnews, “I submitted my resignation today to the Ministry of National Security as a consequence of the security breaches in the province.”
Earlier today, at least 13 people were killed and up to 19 people were injured when a car bomb went off at the gate to the area of the Presidential Palaces of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in Tikrit. According to Reuters news agency, the explosion occurred when the control of the checkpoint was exchanged between police and army, which was supervised by military officers.
lot of victims were military personnel, including a colonel who served as head of military intelligence in Tikrit.
On Friday, two consecutive bombs outside a mosque and in a hospital in Tikrit had killed 17 and 6 respectively, 72 were injured.
This week’s attacks were Tikrit’s deadliest since March 29, when 58 people died in an hours-long firefight between al-Qaeda and security forces at the provincial council’s offices.
The attacks question Iraq’s ability to provide security just a few months before U.S. troops will leave the country.
The “U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement” (SOFA) from 2008 has set a time-table for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. According to SOFA, the last U.S. soldier has to leave by December 31st, 2011.
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