Baghdad Suicide Blast Kills 10, Wounds 45

[Systematic Chaos]

Top story on Yahoo! I don't see it posted here yet so I hope it's not a dupe. It's only a half-hour old.

Link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031010/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716

By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber crashed a white Oldsmobile into a police station in Iraq's largest Shiite Muslim enclave Thursday, killing himself, nine others and wounding as many as 45. Earlier, gunmen — one dressed as a Muslim cleric — shot and killed a Spanish military attache.

The violence, six months to the day after Baghdad fell to American forces, underscored the predicament of a capital whose deliverance from Saddam Hussein's tyranny has been repeatedly undermined by terrorism, attacks on U.S. forces and sectarian unrest.

The ancient city's landscape is now lined with massive concrete blast barriers and coils of barbed wire outside hotels, government departments and along stretches of road near U.S. military bases.

As in previous attacks, there was no claim of responsibility for the 8:30 a.m. bombing in Sadr City, a Baghdad district with an estimated 2 million Shiites.

"It was a huge blast and everything became dark from the debris and sand. I was thrown to the ground," said Mohammed Adnan, who sells watermelons opposite the police station.

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Hey people! "Mission Accomplished!" :eyes:

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I saw that on Yahoo but I thought that happened a couple of days ago?

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Well, it does say it happened Thursday in the article....

So, either we have a new incident going on, or somebody is cooking the books on the dates of these things over at Yahoo to keep people glued to their website. I really wish it were the latter, but I kinda doubt it. :shrug:

[Guaranteed]

3. They just upped the casualties, is all....n/t

[VolcanoJen]

4. This is the blast that occurred at 8:30 am (Baghdad Time) Thursday

According to the article, this the blast that occurred yesterday.

There have been a few LBN threads about it today, the earliest of which was posted at 3:06 am Thursday by bluestateguy, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=157363

Thanks!
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