10-09-2006, 11:37 AM
<b>Hundreds of Iraqi police poisoned, officials say</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Between <b>600-700 policemen were affected to varying degrees</b>, and 11 who had the heaviest amount of the food had died, al-Atwan told The Associated Press.
Some of the soldiers collapsed as soon as they stood up from the meal, others fell "one after the other" as they headed out to the yard in the base to line up in formation, al-Atwan said.
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The afflicted policemen belonged to the 4th Division of the National Police, nicknamed the<b> "Karrar" Division</b>, after a title of Imam Ali, the most revered Shiite saint.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Between <b>600-700 policemen were affected to varying degrees</b>, and 11 who had the heaviest amount of the food had died, al-Atwan told The Associated Press.
Some of the soldiers collapsed as soon as they stood up from the meal, others fell "one after the other" as they headed out to the yard in the base to line up in formation, al-Atwan said.
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The afflicted policemen belonged to the 4th Division of the National Police, nicknamed the<b> "Karrar" Division</b>, after a title of Imam Ali, the most revered Shiite saint.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->