Monday, March 10, 2008

THREE BOMB ATTACKS ROCK BAGHDAD

Three bombs went off in Baghdad on Monday morning killing one civilian and wounding nine others.

The attacks came one day after FOX NEWS' Brit Hume interviewed Republican Congressman Mike Pence who claimed violence has been curtailed in the Iraqi capital city.

Pence had been on a fact-finding mission and appeared Sunday of "Fox News Sunday" and boasted about how you can walk the streets of Baghdad and other cities in Iraq without the fear of suicide bombings.

Bombings in Baghdad kill civilian, wound 9

Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/10/content_7759493.htm

BAGHDAD, March 10 (Xinhua) -- A civilian was killed and nine others wounded in three bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital on Monday, an interior Ministry source said.

A KIA truck bomb parked near a mosque in the Shiite dominantly neighborhood of Shaab in northeastern Baghdad detonated in the morning, killing a civilian and wounding five others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In separate incident, a roadside bomb went off in the morning near the intersection of Adan neighborhood in northern the capital, wounding two people, the source said.


Also in northern Baghdad, a mortar round landed on the Muheet Street in the Kadhimiyah neighborhood, wounding two more people, he said.

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