Car bomber targets Baghdad Green Zone (Monday 10/4/04)

[UpInArms]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=568604

At least 15 people died when a car bomb exploded in Baghdad today near an entrance to the heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the US Embassy and Iraqi government buildings. Hospital and military officials said a further 81 people were wounded.

Less than an hour later, a second car bomb ripped through Baghdad's central Saadoun Street about 50 meters from the Baghdad Hotel causing an unspecified number of casualties.

Later, a further five people were reported killed in a car bomb in the north-east Iraq city of Mosul.

The first explosion happened shortly before 9 a.m. near a checkpoint at the western entrance to the Green Zone, said Maj. Phil Smith, a spokesman for the US 1st Cavalry Division. Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman said it was caused by a four-wheel-drive vehicle packed with explosives.

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http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6403031

Twin Bomb Attacks in Central Baghdad, 14 Dead

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two bomb blasts shook central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 90, while U.S. and Iraqi forces pursued their offensive against rebel strongholds elsewhere in the country.

In the first attack in western Baghdad, a car bomb blew up near one of the entrances to the heavily fortified Green Zone, close to an Iraqi National Guard recruitment post, killing at least 10 people and wounding 70, doctors and witnesses said.

A U.S. military spokesman said no American troops were killed or wounded in the attack, but had no further information.

A second bomb exploded about an hour later as a U.S. military convoy was passing along Sadoun Street, a major thoroughfare on the eastern side of the Tigris river.

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[leftchick]

1. Well Look At All of the US Taxpayer Paid Mercs Running around

A foreign national is evacuated soon after a car bomb ripped through Saadoun street in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday Oct. 4, 2004. The bomb targeted two four-wheel drives carrying foreign nationals and the casualty figure is unknown. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)



A foreign security personnel, left, shoots at suspected insurgents soon after a car bomb ripped through Saadoun street in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday Oct. 4, 2004. The bomb targeted two four-wheel drives carrying foreign nationals and the casualty figure is unknown. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

.....It Looks like they were the target. I don't see one US soldier there!

[leftchick]

2. update:21 Killed in Baghdad Car Bomb Blasts

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents exploded two car bombs at the gates of the main U.S.-Iraqi headquarters in Baghdad and near major hotels Monday, killing at least 21 people and wounding 96. In Fallujah, U.S. warplanes struck what the military called terror hideouts, killing 11, according to doctors who said women and children were among the dead

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20041004/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq