http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070625/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AltfYPUklrvPQ6TPh37YUgys0NUEBAGHDAD - A suicide bomber who penetrated layers of security blew himself up in the busy lobby of a leading Baghdad hotel on Monday, killing at least nine people, including a U.S.-allied tribal sheik, police reported.
The attack, in which 16 others were wounded, was just one in a surge of five suicide and other bombings Monday that killed at least 29 people across Iraq.
In an equally deadly attack, a suicide truck bomber targeted an Iraqi police station shared with U.S. troops in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, killing nine people. There were no American casualties in that blast, the U.S. command said.
The bombing at the high-rise Mansour Hotel, on the west bank of the Tigris River in central Baghdad, struck at about noon as the lobby bustled with members of news media organizations headquartered at the hotel and other guests, witnesses said.