IRAQ: INVESTIGATIONS CONTINUE INTO SUICIDE BOMB BLAST AT COALITION HEADQUARTERS IN BAGHDAD.

Record ID: 358537

  • Title: IRAQ: INVESTIGATIONS CONTINUE INTO SUICIDE BOMB BLAST AT COALITION HEADQUARTERS IN BAGHDAD.
  • Date: 19th January 2004
  • Summary: (EU) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 18, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV: WIDE OF BOMB SITE AND U.S. TANK BLOCKING THE ROAD 0.05 2. GV: U.S. SOLDIERS EXAMINING WRECKAGE 0.14 3. GV/LV: U.S. SOLDIERS LAYING OUT BARBED WIRE (2 SHOTS) 0.28 4. LV: WIDE OF DAMAGED CARS, BULLDOZERS IN BACKGROUND 0.35 5. GV: VARIOUS OF BULLDOZERS REMOVING
  • Embargoed: 3rd February 2004 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA5LEIMALXIZVQ88P58STKALPZ4
  • Story Text: Investigation continues at site of a blast that
    killed at least 20 people and injured more than 60 outside
    main gate of coalition headquarters in Baghdad.



    Using bulldozers, U.S. soldiers on Sunday (January
    18) evening continued clearing up wreckage on the site of
    the suicide bomb which killed at least 20 people, most of
    them Iraqis.

    A suicide bomber detonated half a tonne of explosives
    outside the U.S. seat of power in Iraq on Sunday, killing
    at least 20 people in the deadliest attack since the
    capt
    ure of Saddam Hussein.

    The explosion in the heart of the Iraqi capital came a
    day before a key meeting in New York between the United
    Nations, Iraq's Governing Council and U.S. and British
    officials on the political future of the country.

    The bomb exploded at the Assassins Gate, the main
    entrance to the Green Zone, formerly Saddam's Republican
    Palace complex and now the top-security, civilian and
    military headquarters of the U.S.-led administration.

    A U.S. military spokesman said at least two American
    contractors were believed to have been killed in the blast,
    which also wounded more than 60 people, mostly Iraqis
    waiting to enter the complex for work.

    The blast shook the centre of Baghdad and sent plumes
    of black smoke into the mist of the winter morning along
    the Tigris river. Cars blazed in the street and victims lay
    in pools of blood. A stream of ambulances ferried the

    wounded to ho

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