TROJAN HORSE

Owja is right outside of COB Speicher, south of Tikrit. And also the place that we know by heart, and here is the story about Trojan Horse. Enjoy

in a day of renewed violence in Iraq, insurgents converted a water tanker into a latter-day Trojan horse to carry out a surprise attack on a checkpoint near Saddam Hussein’s birthplace, Awja, Iraqi police said Thursday.

They said the police responded with heavy fire, killing 14 attackers, while two officers were seriously wounded. The American military said the police killed eight insurgents. Also dead was the truck driver, who detonated a suicide vest.

The attackers hid inside a Mercedes truck originally built to carry drinking water and cattle, which had been modified to hide the gunmen, a police spokesman said in Tikrit.

An American military spokesman in Tikrit said the truck initially attacked a checkpoint manned by Sunni volunteers near Owja, where Mr. Hussein is buried. But when Iraqi and Arab fighters emerged from the interior and opened fire on the checkpoint, the volunteers were joined by Iraqi police officers and soldiers who killed all the attackers and destroyed the truck.