- Title: IRAQ: SUSPECTED BOMBERS OF BAGHDAD RESTAURANT PARADED BY IRAQI POLICE.
- Date: 27th May 2005
- Summary: (BN10) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MAY 27, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. GV/CU: SUSPECTED BOMBERS SITTING ON FLOOR WEARING BLINDFOLDS (4 SHOTS) 0.23 2. GV/MV/CU: SUSPECT BEING LED INSIDE, SITTING DOWN; WRISTS BOUND; SUSPECTS BEING QUESTIONED (5 SHOTS) 0.43 3. (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) BADAR SHAKAR, SUSPECT, SAYING: "They gave it (the remote detonator) to me to do it. (R
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- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
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- Story Text: Iraqi authorities present three men suspected of the
bombing of a Baghdad restaurant which killed eight people
and wounded around 90.
One of three men suspected of the bombing of a
Baghdad restaurant this week told journalists on Friday
(May 27) that he was offered fifteen hundred U.S. dollars
for the act but received nothing.
Two of his alleged accomplices were arrested less than
24 hours after the lunchtime blast, which killed eight
people and wounded around 90, on Monday (May 23) police
said.
Badar Shakar and his brother Yasim said they were
responsible for coordinating and detonating the car bomb,
one of Iraq's bloodiest in recent months, on instructions
received by telephone.
In answer to a series of questions Yasim told Reuters,
"I am the coordinator. Abu Karim calls me and I coordinate
with the group. I was with them. I was with my brother
Badar. I am married and have four children," he said, as
the three were paraded for the cameras.
His brother, Badar said, "They gave it (the remote
detonator) to me to do it. They gave me the remote and told
me do it and then said I should leave. I was about two
hundred metres away. I don't know anything about the number
of people around the restaurant," he added.
One man said the plan was to target U.S. troops but it
had changed.
"What happened is we targeted the U.S. forces and
something went wrong and the plan changed. I don't know how
the plan changed and the restaurant became the target,"
said Yasim Shaker.
The third man, Wisam, said that he was offered 1500
U.S. dollars but had not been paid.
An un-named senior police officer said the brothers
were arrested in the early hours of the next day and had
confessed by early evening.
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