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| Five Killed, 37 Wounded in Baghdad Car Blast |
| 2004-06-02 |
| A car blew up in a busy northern Baghdad neighborhood on Wednesday killing at least five people and wounding more than 35, police and hospital officials said. A small explosion occurred shortly after a U.S. military convoy passed, wounding a woman passer-by, witnesses said. As a crowd of people rushed to help her, a second, more powerful explosion went off, causing much worse casualties. Abdul Basset Fathi, a doctor at al-Namun hospital in the Aadhimiya district where the blast occurred, said five people were killed and 37 wounded in the attack. Reuters Television pictures showed a burned-out shell of a car flipped over by the explosion, a large crater and pools of blood on the street in the predominantly Sunni Muslim district. Police said the road was packed with pedestrians and workers when the explosion went off at mid-morning. In a separate incident in a western district of Baghdad, one Iraqi was killed when a small roadside bomb went off as a U.S. military convoy was passing. The military said it suffered no casualties in the attack. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #1 I'm listening to Brian Suits, A radio host in Seatle who is in Iraq as a 2nd LT, US Army. He feels a corner has been turned regarding how things are going. He spends most everyday out in the boonies doing nation building. Says that 90% of roadside bombs are reported to them by Iraqis. That the amount of brave ambush fodder is fast being depleted. Many are now just going back to being civilian. Says the bombing in Baghdad is due to the journalist who stay there so the reporting will be shrill. Says Taters militia is fading away (killed also) and that he has lost almost all credibility with the folks. Overt hostility to him. Suits is cool, he's a great radio host and he misses it badly. You can hear his wearyness. But he does say that he will not be a 1st LT. He's had enough. I don't blame him, he's a bootstrap LT and has been in three hot zones already. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-06-02 12:26:20 PM |