Iraq restaurant bomb kills dozens More than 30 people have been killed and at least 20 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a restaurant in Baghdad, Iraqi officials have said. Witnesses said the explosion in the city centre could be heard from several miles away.
The restaurant is popular with Iraqi police officers and security guards. In a separate incident, at least six people were killed and 13 injured by a suicide car bomb in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit. In Baghdad, a man with explosives strapped to his body walked into a restaurant close to the Palestine Hotel in the city centre shortly before 1000 (0700 GMT) and blew himself up. The BBC's correspondent there, Jim Muir, described the scene as utter carnage. The bomb was not one of the biggest bombs yet seen in Baghdad, but it was particularly lethal because it exploded in a confined space, he said. Al-Qaeda in Iraq has claimed in a statement posted on the internet that it carried out the attack, Reuters reports. "A lion from our martyrs' brigade embedded himself among the infidel police and security forces in the restaurant," said a statement on an Islamist website often used by the group. A statement purporting to be from Al-Qaeda in Iraq had earlier said the group carried out the bomb attacks which killed at least 57 people in three hotels in Jordan's capital, Amman, on Wednesday. Recruiting centre attacked Only an hour after the Baghdad attack another suicide bomber drove his car into the middle of a group of men queuing at a Tikrit recruiting centre for the Iraqi army. Capt Hakim al-Azawi told the Associated Press that the men were former army officers who had served under Saddam Hussein and who had recently been invited to re-enlist. The armed forces were disbanded after the US-led invasion in 2003 - a move seen by many as an error as it created large numbers of unemployed, disaffected men. The Iraqi government is trying to build up its security forces to replace the multinational troops, who are currently struggling to contain the insurgency ahead of December's parliamentary elections. Iraqi security forces have been the frequent targets of attacks by insurgents. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/4423836.stm Published: 2005/11/10 13:00:17 GMT © BBC MMV ====================================== Jusfiq Hadjar gelar Sutan Maradjo Lelo ....................................... Orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa al-Mushaf itu TIDAK berbukti berisi wahyu Allah dan hadits itu mustahil ada yang sahih ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/uTGrlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
