Experts Suggest Outsiders In Blast

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"The second effective use of a car bomb in less than two weeks suggests at least some foreign involvement," said political risk analyst Jon Alterman, Middle East director of the Washington-based CSIS.

Iraqis, not coalition forces, bore the brunt of other attacks over the past two weeks as well: a bomb that cut off the water supply to most of Baghdad on Sunday and Monday, mysterious fires that shut down the country's export pipelines days after Iraq's economic lifeblood oil began flowing to into Turkey. The pipeline explosion is costing the Iraqi people $7 million a day, according to L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator of Iraq.

Dia'a Rashwan, an expert on radical Islam at Egypt's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said Iraqis who have been staging guerrilla attacks against U.S. forces "have no problems with the U.N."

After Tuesday's bombing, the Arab television station Al-Jazeera reported that an anti-U.S. group in Iraq, the Iraqi Islamic National Resistance Movement, released a statement condemning the attack and saying no Iraqis would have attacked the United Nations.