Suicide Car Bomb Kills 6 at Home of Iraqi Officer - New York Times

By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: June 26, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 25 — A suicide car bomber killed at least six people on Saturday when he slammed his vehicle into the wall outside an Iraqi police officer’s home in Samarra, an insurgent stronghold 60 miles north of Baghdad. The local police said the officer singled out in the attack had survived, but at least four civilians on the street and two insurgents, besides the suicide bomber, had been killed.

The Samarra attack, on a day that was otherwise notable for a relatively low level of insurgent attacks, demonstrated the increasing complexity that American commanders say they have identified in insurgent tactics in recent months. According to the police account, the suicide bomber was accompanied by several other cars with insurgents, two of whom were killed when a bomb exploded while they were trying to plant it on the road outside the target house after the initial attack."