Bomber attacks Baghdad paper on day when 52 are killed
A suicide car bomber attacked Iraq’s largest newspaper on Sunday, detonating his vehicle inside its fortified compound in downtown Baghdad and killing two people and wounding 20 others, the executive editor and government officials said. The bombing was part of a violent day across Iraq in which explosions and gun battles killed at least 52 people, including an American soldier.
The bombing of Al-Sabah, a national newspaper financed by the Shiite-led Iraqi government, also destroyed more than a dozen vehicles and caused the collapse of a quarter of the building where journalists and printing-press operators work, said the executive editor, Falah al-Mishaal. The attack occurred around 8:30 a.m., as guards carrying automatic assault rifles grew suspicious of the vehicle after it had been cleared to enter the newspaper’s parking lot, Mr. Mishaal said in an interview. Before the bomber could be killed, he blew up his vehicle, sending at least two parked cars through the building’s wall.
“Tomorrow we will return to work again,” Mr. Mishaal said.
Source: Paul von Zielbauer. The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/world/middleeast/28iraq.html
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