] Around 25 attackers, some of them masked, faced little
] resistance as they surrounded the police station and
] stormed in, going from room to room throwing hand
] grenades and firing heavy machine guns, survivors said.
] Few police, most with only small weapons, were present at
] the time.
]
] ''I only had a pistol with me,'' said Kamel Allawi, a
] police lieutenant. ''Right away I fell on the ground and
] blood was gushing out of my left leg.''
]
] The attackers freed 75 prisoners held at the station,
] killing the guards and shooting open the cell doors,
] police Lt. Col. Jalal Sabri said. The prisoners were
] criminals most arrested for murder or theft and none of
] them were suspected of involvement in the anti-U.S.
] insurgency, Sabri said.

[ damn that sucks. -k]