http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=452696Iraqi resistance targets CIA, killing six in suicide bomb
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
13 October 2003
Suicide bombers driving two cars attacked a central Baghdad hotel yesterday where senior US officials and CIA agents are thought to have been staying. At least six people were killed and 32 wounded.
All of the dead and most of the injured were Iraqis. But the blast, aimed at a hotel full of American officials, showed the effectiveness of the resistance in its campaign to destabilise the US presence.
The heavily guarded Baghdad hotel was used by American officials, security agents, members of the Iraq Governing Council and US building contractors. It was also believed by Iraqis to house members of the CIA and there were rumours in Baghdad that it was home to members of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.
The bombers struck shortly after midday. Witnesses said one was driving a Toyota. He suddenly swerved out of a lane of traffic on Sadoun Avenue, a busy commercial road, and rammed his vehicle through the gates in the 12-foot concrete defences around the hotel
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