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| Iraq |
| Car bomb kills at least 36 in Baghdad |
| 2010-01-25 |
| At least 36 people were killed and 71 injured Monday in multiple bomb explosions in the hotel district of central Baghdad, a ministry official said. Three massive car bombs shook the Iraqi capital in quick succession. The first blast went off in the car park of the Sheraton Hotel and the second was in front of Babylon Hotel. The third blast took place shortly after when a minibus drove into the Al Hamra Hotel compound and blew up 160 feet short of the main entrance, eyewitnesses said. The bomb left a crater 30 feet wide and 12 feet deep. The Iraqi army were trying to remove families that were trapped inside near-by houses and extract wounded from the second floor of the hotel. Monday's explosions came less than six weeks from a March 7 general election which both U.S. forces and Iraqi politicians had warned could be a focus for violence. The latest violence also occurred less than two weeks after security forces sealed off Baghdad after being tipped-off that bomb-laden cars had been parked in the city. Insurgents, weakened in the past year, have in the past six months changed tactics and mounted successful high-profile attacks on "hard" targets such as government buildings, rather than so-called soft targets in civilian areas. The blast came just before Saddam Hussein's cousin, "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid, was excecuted. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 I wonder if check-point personnel were still using the "dowsing rod of death" rather than sniffer dogs? The woo-woo charlatan whose company made these is a farking war criminal and needs to hang. Since he is British, that isn't going to happen. He has been arrested and charged with fraud though. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-01-25 11:05 |