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Bombing Shows Fragility of Iraq's Security Gains
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 11, 2008 08:36am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 11, 2008 02:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Attack in Baghdad Leaves 28 Dead
By Mary Beth Sheridan and Qais Mizher
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 11, 2008; Page A12
BAGHDAD, Nov. 10 -- For years, as car bombs rocked Baghdad, a wall of three-foot-high concrete barriers closed off the road next to Imad Karim's restaurant in a northern district.
Walls define much of this historic city -- slabs of concrete erected by U.S. soldiers or residents that have turned neighborhoods into mazes aimed at frustrating attackers. Only recently, as security improved, did someone wedge open the barriers by Karim's Abu Wael restaurant. No one noticed when someone drove a white Volkswagen Passat through the opening and parked.
At about 8 a.m. Monday, explosives in the Passat's trunk detonated, just as a minibus packed with 20 people passed by on the busy road on the other side of the barriers, witnesses and U.S. officials said. The minibus was engulfed in flames. Minutes later, two roadside bombs exploded near the mangled Passat, showering the occupants of Abu Wael and another nearby restaurant with shards of glass and blowing in their corrugated-metal roofs, according to witnesses.
At least 28 people died and more than 50 were injured, according to Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Askari, a Defense Ministry spokesman, speaking on the al-Arabiya satellite network. The U.S. military put the toll far lower, at five dead. |
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