Car bomb kills 3 near Baghdad's Green Zone-police(another 10 killed in Mosul)

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

Car bomb kills 3 near Baghdad's Green Zone-police

More BAGHDAD, April 23 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 10 in a restaurant in Baghdad near the heavily fortified Green Zone compound on Monday, Iraqi police said.

Near the northern city of Mosul, a suicide car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 20, police said.


Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23120904.htm

[Eugene]

1. Bombers kills 23 in Iraq -police

Source: Reuters

Bombers kills 23 in Iraq -police
23 Apr 2007 07:25:18 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Adds details)

BAGHDAD, April 23 (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed 23 people in a
series of attacks in Iraq on Monday, including one in a Baghdad
restaurant near the heavily fortified Green Zone compound that killed
three, Iraqi police said.

Near the northern city of Mosul, a suicide car bomb killed 10 people
and wounded 20 in an attack on the office of a Kurdish political
party, police said.

In the city of Baquba, a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into
a police building, killing 10 people and wounding 10 others, police
said.

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Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23122957.htm

[Eugene]

2. Car bomb near Iranian embassy kills 1 in Baghdad

Source: Reuters

Car bomb near Iranian embassy kills 1 in Baghdad
23 Apr 2007 08:35:12 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, April 23 (Reuters) - A car bomb killed one person
in a parking lot across the road from the Iranian embassy in
Baghdad on Monday, police said.

They said the embassy had not been damaged. Four people
were wounded in the blast, police added.


Link: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23150140.htm

[maddezmom]

3. Is the Embassy in the Green Zone?

[Eugene]

5. The Iranian embassy is in central Baghdad, near the GZ but not in it. n/t

[maddezmom]

6. thanks

I knew you'd know the answer. :)

[maddezmom]

4. BAGHDAD - Six people were killed and 14 wounded near GreenZone

BAGHDAD - Six people were killed and 14 wounded when a suicide bomber blew up in a restaurant near the entrance to the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses the U.S. embassy and Iraqi government offices, police said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM330355.htm

[maddezmom]

7. Three car bombs kill 15 in Iraq's Ramadi - police

Three car bombs kill 15 in Iraq's Ramadi - police

RAMADI, Iraq, April 23 (Reuters) - Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the Iraqi insurgent stronghold of Ramadi on Monday, killing 15 people and wounding more than 28, police said.

The attacks took place near a restaurant and a market in the western Ramadi district of al-Taamim.

Witnesses said earlier there was a heavy police presence in the city after police had received information that car bombs and suicide vests were present in the area.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23322625.htm

[maddezmom]

8. Suicide bombings around Iraq kill 46 and wounding over 90

Suicide bombings around Iraq kill 46 53 minutes ago



BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb struck a restaurant in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 19 people and wounding 35, police said.

The attack occurred on a highway near Ramadi, a city that is 70 miles west of Baghdad, a policeman said on condition of anonymity out of concern for his own safety.

Three suicide bombers launched attacks in different parts of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 27 people and wounding nearly 60 on Monday, police and politicians said.

A parked car bomb also exploded outside the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, killing one civilian, and a drive-by shooting wounded two guards at Tunisia's Embassy in the capital, police said.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070423/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violence