- Title: IRAQ: SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED IN TERRORIST ATTACKS
- Date: 24th December 2003
- Summary: (W4) ARBIL, IRAQ (DECEMBER 24, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (QUALITY AS INCOMING) 1. WIDE OF PEOPLE STANDING AROUND CRATER CAUSED BY EXPLOSION 0.10 2. WIDE OF CARS AND PEOPLE AROUND AREA OF THE BLAST 0.13 3. CLOSE OF CRATER CAUSED BY THE BLAST/ PAN TO WRECKAGE OF CAR 0.34 4. WIDE OF CRATER AND REMAINS OF THE CAR WHICH EXPLODED 0.4
- Embargoed: 8th January 2004 12:00
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- Location: ARBIL AND BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA7X0YVG65D0SG49E4MXFM3HPS5
- Story Text: At least seven people were killed in various attacks
across Iraq.
Speaking at a news conference hours after a suicide
car bomber killed four people in northern Iraqi city of
Arbil, spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority
Charles Heatley on Wednesday (December 24) blamed the
attack on "terrorists".
"Another very clear terrorist outrage. It's clear
enough I think from the early indications now that it was a
terrorist attack. And it follows the same pattern of the
previous attacks, of attacking an area where progress has
been made. It has been a traditionally quite area, up in
the predominantly Kurdish area up in Arbil. The terrorists
clearly have an intent to try to attack progress where they
find it to try to sow dissent," Heatly said.
A suicide car bomb blew up at the entrance of the
Interior Ministry headquarters in the northern city of
Arbil, killing the bomber, two policemen guarding the
facility, a passerby and a 13-year-old girl. A Kurdish
official said more than 100 people were wounded.
The official blamed extremists who came from outside
Iraq, without elaborating.
The U.S.-backed governments building was damaged in the
blast and a number of cars were destroyed. The force of the
explosion left a huge crater on the road.
Meanwhile, Coalition Chief of Operation General Mark
Kimmit, confirmed details of a separate attack on
Wednesday, in which three U.S. soldiers were killed in a
roadside attack north of Baghdad.
"A three vehicle convoy travelling on Highway One was
attacked with an IED in the vicinity of Samara about 9:10
this morning. The IED attack caused at this time two U.S.
soldiers killed and one wounded and the third, the wounded
soldier, subsequently passed away," Kimmit said.
Earlier, the U.S. military said the roadside bomb
ripped through a U.S. military convoy north of Baghdad
Wednesday, killing three soldiers.
A military vehicle was destroyed in the blast that
occurred at about 9 a.m. near the town of Samara, 60 miles
north of Baghdad, a military
statement said.
The deaths brought to 205 the number of U.S. soldiers
killed since Washington declared an end to major combat in
Iraq) on May 1.
U.S. forces arrested scores of suspected guerrillas
last week in raids on Samarra, a town in mainly Sunni
Muslim central Iraq, which is a
hotbed for anti-American insurgents.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a similar attack in
Baghdad Tuesday.
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