Bombs kill at least 25 as US defends Baghdad wallBy Sabah Jerges in Baghdad
April 24, 2007 04:00am
A STRING of bomb attacks in Iraq killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens of others, as US and Iraqi officials defended the building of a wall around a Sunni enclave in Baghdad.
A car bomb near an office of Kurdish leader Massud Barzani's Kurdish Democratic Party killed 10 people and wounded 20 more in Tal Isquf, a mainly Christian village in northern Iraq, party spokesman Abdul Gani Ali said.
Witnesses said the car was left between the party office and a social club, and some of the victims were thought to be Kurdish “peshmerga” fighters.
Bomb attacks also ravaged Baghdad, the epicentre of a campaign by al-Qaeda militants to undermine Iraq's Shiite-led government and to foment sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites.
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Al-Yasmin restaurant near the capital's fortified Green Zone, killing seven people and wounding 14, a security official said.
The walled zone houses the US embassy and the Iraqi parliament, where a suicide bomber triggered his explosive vest on April 12, killing one lawmaker.
Two more car bombs exploded in a parking lot a short distance from the Green Zone, opposite the Iranian Embassy and close to the Iraqi defence ministry.
The Iranian embassy was not damaged in either explosion and it was unclear if it was the target.
North of Baghdad in the violence-plagued city of Baquba, a bomber exploded his car near the city council building, killing four policemen including a senior officer, police Lieutenant Ahmed Ali said.
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Mr. Bush, tear down this wall.
April 24, 2007 04:00am
A STRING of bomb attacks in Iraq killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens of others, as US and Iraqi officials defended the building of a wall around a Sunni enclave in Baghdad.
A car bomb near an office of Kurdish leader Massud Barzani's Kurdish Democratic Party killed 10 people and wounded 20 more in Tal Isquf, a mainly Christian village in northern Iraq, party spokesman Abdul Gani Ali said.
Witnesses said the car was left between the party office and a social club, and some of the victims were thought to be Kurdish “peshmerga” fighters.
Bomb attacks also ravaged Baghdad, the epicentre of a campaign by al-Qaeda militants to undermine Iraq's Shiite-led government and to foment sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites.
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Al-Yasmin restaurant near the capital's fortified Green Zone, killing seven people and wounding 14, a security official said.
The walled zone houses the US embassy and the Iraqi parliament, where a suicide bomber triggered his explosive vest on April 12, killing one lawmaker.
Two more car bombs exploded in a parking lot a short distance from the Green Zone, opposite the Iranian Embassy and close to the Iraqi defence ministry.
The Iranian embassy was not damaged in either explosion and it was unclear if it was the target.
North of Baghdad in the violence-plagued city of Baquba, a bomber exploded his car near the city council building, killing four policemen including a senior officer, police Lieutenant Ahmed Ali said.
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Mr. Bush, tear down this wall.
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