Car bomb kills at least 11 in Baghdad

[jadedcherub]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide car bomber detonated early Wednesday near the Green Zone in central Baghdad, killing one U.S. soldier and 10 Iraqis -- seven civilians and three National Guard members, officials said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/14/iraq.main/index.html

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At least 40 Iraqi civilians were wounded, according to a U.S. military official and Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.

According to police, witnesses saw a car driving slowly in the area shortly before it exploded.

The explosion took place at 9:20 a.m. (1:20 a.m. EDT) about 300-500 meters (985-1,640 feet) from an entrance to the Green Zone, a senior official with the U.S.-led multinational forces said. The area houses the headquarters for the multinational forces.

The heavily guarded area also houses the interim Iraqi government. Visitors come into the restricted area through the checkpoint to do business with the new government.

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.jc.

[countmyvote4real]

1. US democracy frees the opposition to blow themselves up.

Shock and awe. Shock and awe. Probably coming to a homeland near you according to Herr Ridge. (Sidebar: Why is the country or the nation now referred to as the homeland? Is this a transitional move towards "Trailer Park Land?")

All GOP are fascists in my POV. And sometimes I feel like my own head is going to explode. Thankfully, it passes pretty quickly because I'm in a blue state and boycott the red states.

We are NOT safer now. No one is safer now. * sucks.

[saigon68]

2. "BRING EM ON" Shouted the COWARDLY DRAFT DODGER

And "Bring It On" did the Iraqi Resistance.

Another Gold Star Mother--- I'm sure she'll be real Happy this afternoon when she finds out her child 'DIED FOR FREEDOM".

[leftchick]

4. Hi saigon... take a look at this photo.....

Does this guy look like a soldier to you?!?



A soldier passes the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday, July 14, 2004. The massive car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near an area housing international offices and embassies in Baghdad.(AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

[saigon68]

5. THAT'S A BLACKWATER MERCENARY

Save the Photo to your hard drive. This THUG will soon be dragged by the RESISTANCE. And it will be interesting to compare the before and after.

That cute little Car-16 he has, is not military issue, nor the non regulation "Costume" he is wearing.

[leftchick]

6. thanks saigon.....

I thought I knew a merc when I saw one. As I was going through the yahoo photos this morning I came across a few more of them mixed in with the US soldiers and Iraqi NG that responded to that car bombing. Our tax dollars...

[Judi Lynn]

3. Earlier story on the bombing from the L. A. Times (additional details)

July 14, 2004


THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ
7 Killed as Bomb Rocks Baghdad
Blast occurs today outside an area housing Western and Iraqi officials. A Bulgarian hostage is executed and the Philippines agrees to bring troops home early.

7 Killed as Bomb Rocks Baghdad

Ashraf Khalil, Carol J. Williams and Richard C. Paddock, Times Staff Writers


BAGHDAD — A massive car bombing at an entrance to the multinational Green Zone killed at least seven people and injured 23 this morning, shaking much of the capital and shattering the relative calm it had experienced since the transfer of sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government.

A police officer at the scene, Haider Abdel Reda, said at least three of the dead were Iraqi national guardsmen. No Americans were killed, but one soldier was slightly wounded by shrapnel, U.S. Army Col. Mike Murray said. The entrance is used by journalists and other civilians to enter the vast compound that houses the U.S. and British embassies and the new Iraqi government.

The car was in line to be searched when it detonated in an apparent suicide attack. The bombing came on a national holiday that celebrates the fall of Iraq's monarchy in 1958. It was the first major bombing in Baghdad since June 14, when an explosion killed 13 people traveling in a convoy of construction workers.

The attack came amid continuing hostage crises in Iraq. A group led by Palestinian-Jordanian militant Abu Musab Zarqawi on Tuesday executed one of two Bulgarian hostages, and the Philippine government indicated that it would withdraw its 51 troops from Iraq early in the hope of saving one of its citizens, a truck driver held by another group of kidnappers.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq14jul14,1,4438376.story?coll=la-headlines-world
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[Rose Siding]

7. Gov of Mosul killed in different attack

"Meanwhile, the governor of Mosul was killed Wednesday when attackers threw a grenade at a convoy traveling toward Baghdad, Reuters quoted an Interior Ministry as saying."

[Ripley]

8. Damn, that's 889 Americans isn't it?

RIP soldiers.