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| Suicide Bomber Kills Three People in Iraq |
| 2003-09-10 |
| Details of yesterdays attack. EFL: A suicide bomber exploded in an SUV outside the U.S. intelligence headquarters, killing three other Iraqis and wounding dozens, including four Americans, a Kurdish security official said Wednesday. The U.S. military in Baghdad had said six Americans were wounded but later said four intelligence officers were hurt along with a Kurdish peshmerga guard at the building. The Kurdish official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that the vehicle was filled with TNT. He also said several homes in the neighborhood, which was cordoned off by U.S. soldiers, were destroyed. He blamed al-Qaida for Tuesday’s attack but gave no reason for that assessment. Nobody has claimed responsibility. The Ansar al-Islam organization, with suspected ties to al-Qaida, was formerly based near Sulaymaniyah, about 30 miles east of Irbil and near the Iranian border. Ansar headquarters was bombed by U.S. jets during the war and surviving members of the group were thought to have fled to Iran. They are now believed to have returned to Iraq. They’d be my suspects. A witness to the attack, Jafar Marouf, a 31-year-old teacher, was visiting a friend Tuesday night on the quiet residential street when he saw a white KIA four-wheel drive approach quickly, then explode with the driver inside. Marouf was slightly injured and spoke with the AP in the hospital. The Kurdish security official said U.S. intelligence officers worked in the bombed building, with some of the top officers also sleeping there. Others had quarters in two villas about 500 yards down the street. It’s been quiet up there, so security may have been not as tight as it should have be. They’ll be working on that now. |
| Posted by:Steve |