Explosions Reportedly Kill 10 in Baghdad

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040601/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Several explosions were heard Tuesday in central Baghdad, and smoke was seen rising from the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which is located just outside the green zone headquarters of the U.S.-run coalition.

The Arab language television stations Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya quoted police sources as saying about 10 people were killed. But the information could not immediately be confirmed.

Ambulances raced to the scene and U.S. troops kept people back. Television footage showed debris and a charred wall of a building.

Coalition authorities had no immediate information on the blasts.

On Monday, a car bomb exploded near coalition headquarters, killing four people and wounding 25 in violence that U.S. authorities believe was aimed at blocking the coming transfer of power. Four American soldiers were reported killed in other attacks.




A huge cloud of smoke bellows over central Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Tuesday, June 1, 2004 after a strong blast was heard in the center of the city. Preliminary reports on Arab television stations reported 10 dead in the explosion. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. I suppose they are just celebrating

their new interim government?

[maddezmom]

2. the US has no control over security.....Every f'ing day this happens

and it's getting worse. :mad:

[Snazzy]

3. NYT: At Least 5 More G.I.'s Are Killed in Iraq

(seems like as good a place as any to stick yet another death and destruction story-- a sidebar story to the frontpage "ceremonial" Iraqi Presidency story in this morn's NYT)

At Least 5 More G.I.'s Are Killed in Iraq
By EDWARD WONG

Published: June 1, 2004


BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 31 — At least five American soldiers died in Iraq during a 24-hour period that began Sunday, two of them fighting insurgents in the holy city of Kufa during the unraveling of a cease-fire agreement with a rebel Shiite cleric, military officials said Monday.

The two soldiers were the first to be reported killed in combat in the adjoining southern cities of Najaf and Kufa since the First Armored Division began operations there to put pressure on the cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, to disarm his militia. At least 808 American troops have died since the war began in March 2003.

The American-appointed governor of Najaf said Monday that prominent Shiite political and religious leaders had persuaded Mr. Sadr to agree to a new truce. Under the proposal, Mr. Sadr's militia would put away its weapons in exchange for the Americans' halting patrols for 48 hours. But American commanders had not approved the deal as of late Monday.

Violence in the country continued Monday afternoon as a car bomb exploded on a busy commercial and residential street near the fortified American headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least four Iraqi civilians and wounding at least 25 people, military officials and witnesses said.

It was not immediately clear whether a suicide bomber was responsible, though some witnesses said the light blue sedan carrying the bomb appeared to be moving along Al Kindi Street shortly before it exploded, after 1 p.m. Bits of human flesh and blackened metal parts lay strewn over the street and surrounding buildings. A guard for a British power company in a nearby two-story building showed a charred hand and forearm that had landed in the rear garden.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/01/international/middleeast/01IRAQ.html

[leftchick]

4. MSRNC.... 25 Dead...

Just saw on the ticker 25 dead. fuck... :(

[maddezmom]

5. Reuters : Iraqis, U.S. Reach Deal on President; Blast Kills 25

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi leaders got their way over U.S. opposition on Tuesday to have tribal chief Ghazi Yawar appointed president after Washington's choice stepped aside in a face-saving arrangement between occupiers and occupied.


As they met, a massive explosion nearby at the offices of a Kurdish political party just outside the U.S. Green Zone headquarters killed 25 people, police at the scene said.


It was not clear what caused the blast. Widespread violence poses the greatest challenge to the interim government's efforts to organize Iraq (news - web sites)'s first free elections in the new year.


After two days of bitter confrontation over the largely ceremonial post, Iraqi Governing Council members said Washington's preferred presidential candidate, elder statesman Adnan Pachachi, had turned down the post minutes after being offered it by the United Nations (news - web sites) in defiance of the Council.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040601/ts_nm/iraq_dc

[Bhaisahab]

6. here we go again.... n/t

[maddezmom]

7. the photo is of another blast, not the PUK one

but nothing in the press. :(

[Barrett808]

8. Check out the look on this girl's face

We've definitely won her heart and mind.

An Iraqi girl looks at a U.S Army soldier securing an explosion scene in front of her house in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad May 31, 2004. A car exploded in a busy Baghdad street, killing at least two Iraqis and wounding 13 others, a U.S. officer at the site said. REUTERS/Akram Saleh

[leftchick]

9. yeah, she looks like she is loving....

this new muriKan style freedom.