Fresh Baghdad suicide bomb flattens forensics HQ

[bemildred]

Source: TimesOnline.UK

A suicide car bomber has blown up the headquarters of Baghdad's police forensic service this morning, leaving 17 dead and the building in ruins.

Police said that the bomber tried to drive through a police checkpoint. Initial reports that blast walls had succeeded in protecting the criminal evidence offices in Tahariyat Square proved wide of the mark however, as a Reuters photographer at the scene confirmed that the offices were badly damaged.

At least three of the dead were said to be policemen.

"The building collapsed soon after the explosion. Dozens of people usually work in the forensics institute," said an Iraqi official, who declined to be named.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7002762.ece

[unhappycamper]

1. So much for the hearts and minds thingie.

Is it time to leave yet?

[bemildred]

3. If this is "success", you gotta wonder what "failure" looks like? nt

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Failure would have the Iraqis owning all their own oil rights/profits

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So . .

The West has won,

no?

[Botany]

2. Ah the fruits of bush's war are still being harvested

[wordpix]

4. yet pRes Criminal walks free & as he creates his oxyMORON think tank

[maddezmom]

5. Baghdad bomb targets forensics building

Source: ME Online

At least five killed, 20 people injured as forensics building destroyed following car bomb attack.


BAGHDAD - A car bomber exploded his vehicle in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least five people and destroying the government's forensics headquarters, an interior ministry official said.

The explosion also injured at least 20 people, with the toll expected to rise as many people were believed to be in the building at the time, the official said.

"The building collapsed soon after the explosion. Dozens of people usually work in the (forensics) institute," he added, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The blast, in Karrada neighbourhood, came a day after three huge and apparently co-ordinated minibus bombs targeted hotels in Baghdad, killing at least 36 people and wounding 71.



Read more: http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=36847

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UPDATE:
Bombing kills 17 in Baghdad
A suicide bomber killed at least 17 people and wounded 80 others near an Iraqi Interior Ministry building in central Baghdad today, ministry officials said.

Many of those injured or killed in the explosion at a ministry forensics office in Baghdad's Karrada neighbourhood were police, the ministry official said.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0126/breaking24.htm

[demoleft]

6. al jazeera on this:

"At least 18 people have been killed and another 80 injured after a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad.

Police sources told Al Jazeera that the blast, in the Karrada neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, caused the collapse of a building that belonged to the criminal investigation department of the interior ministry.

Hospital and police officials said the bomber tried to drive through a police checkpoint and the blast walls protecting the offices, which are in Tahariyat Square.

Five of the dead and 25 of those injured worked in the interior ministry building."

al jazeera, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/201012681648454836.html

[Arctic Dave]

7. I guess the military will have to stay longer.

They need to keep that money flowing to the MIC.