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Iraqi police refused to help in an attack which left seven Spanish intelligence officials dead and one injured in an ambush south of Baghdad, it was claimed last night. David Bowden, a Sky Television news reporter, who arrived at the ambush scene shortly after the attack, said that witnesses told him two other intelligence officials were also kidnapped in the mistaken belief that they were members of the CIA. Bowden said: "I got the impression it was an IED attack [improvised explosive device]. It just seemed like they waited for a convoy to drive by and they attacked. Two Iraqi policemen on motorcycles drove by and did not stop at all at the scene." The ambush appeared to have been carefully planned and came just a day after Washington warned that the Iraqi resistance had set up an extensive surveillance system as part of a strategy of carefully planned, targeted assassinations.
| I repeat: Not very subtle, are they? |
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