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| Iraq |
| Baghdad bomb attacks kill 127, wound 450 |
| 2009-12-09 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] At least 127 people were killed and 450 others wounded when four or more large car bombs shook Baghdad on Tuesday, the latest high-profile blasts apparently aimed at sensitive Iraqi government buildings, Al Arabiya reporter and police officials said. The explosions rattled buildings across the capital, and undermined a fragile sense of security ahead of an auction of oilfield contracts this weekend, when executives from top oil firms will fly into town, and before an election next year. According to Al Arabiya reporter, there were five attacks beside the Labor and Interior ministries and other governmental buildings. "We will announce more details as we have them," Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim al-Moussawi told Reuters. Some police sources confirmed there had been five explosions, two near judicial buildings, one near a university, another near in a central Baghdad commercial district and the earlier one in the south. Smoke billowed from at least two sites. The blasts are the first large, high-profile explosions in Baghdad since Oct. 25, when two massive truck bombs killed 155 people at the justice ministry and Baghdad governorate headquarters. A smaller blast, which some police officials said might have involved the accidental explosion of a hidden stockpile of munitions, killed seven children at a school in the Shiite slum of Sadr City on Monday. The major bomb attacks in the heart of the Iraqi capital in October and a similar earlier attack in August marked a change of tactics for Iraq's stubborn insurgency. Rather than stage frequent smaller-scale attacks against soft targets like marketplaces or mosques, insurgent groups like al-Qaeda now appear to be aiming for spectacular and less frequent strikes against heavily defended government targets. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 TOPIX > POLICE: BAGHDAD BOMBERS HAD HELP FROM SYRIAN, SAUDI GROUPS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-09 23:44 |
| #1 The main difference between civic and social engineers is that the former understand the materials they work with. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-09 04:30 |