Suicide Bomber Kills 2 in Baghdad Near Allawi HQ

[leftchick]

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7220689

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a taxi killed two people near the headquarters of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party in Baghdad on Monday as insurgents pressed a bloody campaign to disrupt a Jan. 30 election.

The bomber tried to target a security checkpoint on the road leading to the party's offices in western Baghdad but collided with a police pick-up truck and exploded, setting nearby vehicles ablaze and sending up plumes of black smoke.

The blast, which also wounded at least 23 people, came a day after suicide car bombers struck a bus packed with Iraqi National Guards north of Baghdad, killing 26 people.

The attacks were the latest in a spree of bombings and assassinations by Sunni insurgents seeking to drive out U.S.-led forces, cripple the interim government and its fledgling security forces and scare voters away from the polls.



Iraqi security forces arrive at the scene of a suicide car bomb attack, which exploded at a security checkpoint in Baghdad, January 3, 2005. A suicide car bomber targeted a police checkpoint on a road leading to the headquarters of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party in western Baghdad on Monday, killing at least two people, officials and witnesses said. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Damn they are still celebratuing the New Year over there

aren't they party animals? And the flowers and candy they use seems to be of very high quality and they love us, and our stools.