At Least Fifteen Dead in UN HQ Blast in Iraq

[lanlady]

The original thread on this story is getting a bit long, so here's the update:

By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide truck bomb ripped through the hotel housing the U.N. headquarters on Tuesday, U.S. officials said. At least 15 people were killed and 40 wounded, including the chief U.N. official in Iraq (news - web sites), who was trapped in the rubble, U.N. officials said.

A U.N. worker in Baghdad, Tharer al-Tikriti, said that he had counted 15 white body bags taken from the collapsed building, where about 300 people worked. A U.N. spokesman in New York said the official count was 14.

"There were foreigners and Iraqis inside (the body bags,)" al-Tikriti said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20030819/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[stopbush]

1. "Bring 'em on!" - gw a-hole n/t

[lebkuchen]

5. This is exactly what our troops are up against

Sooner or later it will happen, sad to say, as a consequence of Bush's preemptive war against Iraq.

[bif]

2. Gosh, they love being liberated

Don't they?

[monobrau]

3. Welcome liberators!

I hope this didn't spoil the "president's" golf score today.

[section321]

4. Geez... this place is sounding like Beirut in the eighties....