IRAQ: Several blasts rock Baghdad

Record ID: 358149

  • Title: IRAQ: Several blasts rock Baghdad
  • Date: 1st January 2006
  • Summary: (W2) MASHTAL AREA BAGHDAD , IRAQ (JANUARY 1, 2006) (REUTERS) WIDE OF EMPTY STREET SLV PEOPLE GATHERED NEAR WRECKAGE OF CAR BOMB SLV DAMAGED SHOP WIDE WRECKAGE
  • Embargoed: 16th January 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA8J0D8KPL7MXUJ5XJB1N7ZYIKC
  • Story Text: As many as eight bombs went off across Baghdad on
    New Year's morning (January 1) wounding, according to
    police, several people. Police accounts varied on the
    number of explosions, but at least two of them were
    suspected of being car bombs.
    Two of the blasts went off near restaurants in eastern
    Baghdad and two targeted police patrols.
    Insurgent attacks have increased in Iraq following a
    lull during and after the Dec. 15 parliamentary election.
    However, U.S. military commanders in Baghdad say that
    reduced casualty numbers in recent attacks are an
    indication of the success U.S. and Iraqi forces have had in
    disrupting guerrilla activity .
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