RAMADI, Iraq, July 6 (UPI) -- The deaths of seven Iraqi police recruits are the latest sign that Iraq's opposition terrorists are now targeting their fellow citizens.
It was the most recent in a series of attacks that initially focused on American and British forces in Iraq, the New York Times reports, but now appear to be escalating against Iraqi security forces cooperating with occupation forces.
In Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad, on the street where the young police recruits died in a blast, residents gathered and accused the American forces of planting the explosives. Iraqis who work with occupation troops as translators, policemen or contractors have increasingly become the objects of anti-American sentiment and intimidation.
Ramadi is a bastion of Sunni Muslims, the minority that dominated during Saddam Hussein's regime. Resistance to the occupation runs deep there.
Two Iraqi electricity officials were also attacked in recent weeks, one fatally.
