A shopkeeper sorts through the wreckage of his mobile phone store, damaged Wednesday night in a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007. Police said two consecutive car bombs struck a popular market in the northern city on Wednesday night, killing two and wounding more than 30 civilians. (AP Photo / Emad Matti)
Car bomb strikes market district in central Baghdad, killing at least 9, wounding 17
The Associated Press
Thursday, August 16, 2007
BAGHDAD: A car bomb struck a market district during rush hour in central Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 17, police said.
The car was parked in a lot above a row of stores near the busy Rusafi square when it exploded about 9 a.m., a police officer said, giving the casualty toll on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.
A huge fire broke out in the seven-story building and smoke billowed into the air.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but the U.S. military has warned it expects Sunni insurgents to try to upstage a September progress report due to be delivered by top commander Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
The blast occurred in an area full of food vendors, as well as stores selling clothes, leather bags and shoes.
Nine killed in Baghdad car bomb attack
eveningecho, Ireland
16/08/2007 - 7:11:16 AM
At least nine people were killed and 17 wounded when a car bomb struck a market district during rush hour in central Baghdad today, Iraqi police said.
The car was parked above a row of shops near the busy Rusafi square when it exploded about 9 am local time, a police officer said.
A huge fire broke out in the seven-storey building and smoke billowed into the air.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but the US military has warned it expects Sunni insurgents to try to upstage a September progress report due to be delivered by top commander Gen. David Petraeus and US Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
Bomb in Baghdad car park kills 9
Thu 16 Aug 2007, 6:36 GMT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb in a parking lot in central Baghdad killed nine people and wounded 17 on Thursday, with the building also set ablaze, police said.
The bomb went off in a busy commercial area near al-Russafi Square in the heart of Baghdad.
Witnesses reported seeing flames pouring from the building as emergency agencies fought the blaze.
At least four people killed in car bomb in central Baghdad
At least four people were killed and six others were wounded in a car bomb explosion in a commercial area in central Baghdad on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said.
"A car bomb went off around 9:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) in the commercial area near the al-Risafi Square, killing four people and wounding six others," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The explosion damaged several civilian cars, shops and buildings in the crowded area near the main wholesale market of Shorja in central capital, the source said.
The toll could rise, he said, adding that ambulances are ferrying more casualties to nearby hospitals.
Violence persists in Iraq as sectarian killings, suicide attacks, bombings, and abductions cause dozens of Iraqi casualties daily.
Source: Xinhua
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Nine Iraqis killed in Baghdad, 87 gunmen seized in Kirkuk - 2nd Update
Posted on : 2007-08-16 | Author : DPA
News Category : Middle East
Baghdad - At least nine Iraqis were killed and 17 others wounded in a Baghdad attack, while 87 suspected militants were detained in an operation in Kirkuk city, media sources reported on Thursday. In central Baghdad, a car bomb detonated on Thursday morning in Rusafai square near a crowded wholesale market and a bus station, killing nine Iraqis and injuring 17 others, pan-Arab al-Arabiya news broadcaster reported.
Police forces sealed off the scene, preventing civilians from coming closer to the explosion site while the wounded were rushed to nearby hospitals, the independent Voices of Iraq news agency reported citing a police source.
Meanwhile, a joint Iraqi army and police forces at dawn Thursday staged a raid in Senaa neighbourhood in southern Kirkuk, arresting 87 gunmen, Voices of Iraq reported citing a security source.
The forces also confiscated 40 Kalashnikovs and three vehicles, the source added
Kirkuk lies 250 kilometres north-east of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
On Wednesday evening, four people including a child were killed in an explosion in a Kurdish district of the northern Iraqi town of Mosul.
In the Kurdish Autonomous Region of northern Iraq, recovery operations were continuing Thursday among the rubble of villages following suicide attacks on Tuesday evening that resulted in the deaths of more than 500 people.
The Kurdish regional government also approved a plan to speed up the integration of Kurdish areas to the south of the current autonomous region on Wednesday.
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EXTRA: Iraq official denies deaths in central Baghdad attack
Posted on : 2007-08-16 | Author : DPA
News Category : Middle East
Baghdad - An official source at the Iraqi Ministry of Interior denied Thursday that anyone was killed in the central Baghdad morning attack, state-run al-Iraqiya reported. Contradicting earlier media reports that nine Iraqis were killed and 17 others injured, Civil Defence Sector head Abdel-Rasoul al- Zaidi said a car bomb parked near Rusafai marketplace injured only three people, setting some cars in fire and causing damage to stores and commercial offices nearby.
Police forces sealed off the scene, preventing civilians from coming closer to the explosion site while the wounded were rushed to nearby hospitals, al-Zaidi added.
Rusafai marketplace - one of the most crowded areas in central Baghdad - had previously been the target of attacks.
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Car bomb wounds 3 Iraqis in eastern Baghdad
By 2nd IBCT, 2nd Inf. Div. Public Affairs
Aug 16, 2007 - 1:58:32 PM
Blackanthem Military News, FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq - Three Iraqis were wounded and 38 vehicles destroyed when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated in the second floor of a parking garage in Rusafa Square in eastern Baghdad Aug. 16.
Following the 9:30 a.m. attack, troops with the 4th Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division and Company A, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, rushed to the scene and cordoned off the area.
The wounded were transported to Medical City for treatment.
Iraqi kids' cries halt bulldozer's approach
The Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.17.2007
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BAGHDAD — The bulldozer moved closer. The children cried louder.
Then someone heard what few expected amid the horror: four small survivors calling out from ruins of buildings that had become tombs for hundreds of others.
"We didn't hear them calling out for help until moments before a bulldozer would have killed them as it cleared the rubble," said Saad Muhanad, a municipal council member in the Qahtaniya region of northern Iraq.
The discovery of the children — hungry and thirsty but apparently unharmed after two days trapped beneath a toppled building — was a rare uplifting scene Thursday as teams tallied up the grim figures from the deadliest wave of suicide attacks of the war.
Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, interior ministry spokesman, said at least 400 were dead — apparently all members of the ancient Yazidi sect that mixes elements of Islam, Christianity and other faiths.
The four small survivors were related, Muhanad said, but he did not know if they were siblings.
3 U.S. soldiers die
A car bomb struck a Baghdad parking garage in a central commercial district during the morning rush hour, killing at least nine people and wounding 17, police said.
The U.S. military also said three soldiers had been killed. Two soldiers died Wednesday in fighting north of Baghdad. The military said one soldier died Thursday in Baghdad of non-combat causes.
Reshaped power bloc
In Baghdad, political leaders emerged from three days of crisis talks with a new alliance that seeks to save the crumbling U.S.-backed government. But the reshaped power bloc included no Sunnis and immediately raised questions about its legitimacy as a unifying force.
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