Riesige Explosion erschüttert Bagdad - HQ des CIA?

[trashy]

Riesige Explosion erschüttert Bagdad

Eine riesige Explosion hat am Sonntag Bagdad erschüttert. Möglicherweise ist das Hauptquartier des US-Geheimdienstes betroffen. Es soll zahlreiche Opfer gegeben haben.

Bagdad - Augenzeugen berichteten, eine Autobombe habe zahlreiche Menschen getötet. Aus der Gegend, wo das Bagdad Hotel liegt, das als Sitz des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes in der irakischen Hauptstadt dient, sei Rauch in die Luft gestiegen. US-Hubschrauber kreisten über dem Gelände, die irakische Polizei schickte Dutzende von Einsatzwagen. Im nicht weit entfernten Hotel Palestine, wo die meisten ausländischen Journalisten untergebracht sind, gingen Fensterscheiben zu Bruch.
link: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,269468,00.html

Der Guerilliakrieg tobt!

gruß

trashy

 

[trashy]

CNN redet von einem Anschlag auf ein Hotel namens SUNDAY:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An "extremely powerful" explosion hit the Baghdad Hotel Sunday, reducing parts of it to rubble and causing the area to erupt into chaos.
link: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/10/12/sprj.irq.main/index.html

gruß

trashy

 

[Kehrmaschine]

mmh, mal n24 einschalten.

 

[Azariel]

Tja, die Geister die sie riefen....

 

[tickx]

12-10-03 13:02

UPDATE 3-Central Baghdad blast kills at least 10

(adds details)
By Brian Williams and Michael Georgy
BAGHDAD, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A powerful car bomb killed at
least 10 people outside a central Baghdad hotel used by U.S.
officials on Sunday, injuring many and filling the air with
thick black smoke, police said.
Eyewitnesses said they saw a car crash through the security
barrier at the Baghdad Hotel and explode. The hotel is widely
thought to be used by members of the CIA, officials of the U.S.
-led coalition, their Iraqi partners in the Governing Council as
well as U.S. contractors.
A policeman at the scene said at least ten people had been
killed. Hotel employees said five or six bodies lay in the hotel
courtyard.
At a nearby hospital, a Reuters photographer saw more than a
dozen wounded, many seriously. Several were Iraqi policemen.
Sirens wailed as ambulances and fire engines rushed to the
scene. The lower floor of the building next door was on fire.
An Iraqi eyewitness said he saw a white car crash through
the security barrier.
"I saw a car coming towards the hotel. One of the guards
opened fire and it exploded," Nael Murkos said.
U.S. helicopters circled overhead minutes after the blast,
obscured by the thick smoke. Dozens of Iraqi police raced to the
scene.
Guests were seen leaving the hotel carrying suitcases. They
were uninjured but said their rooms had been destroyed.
Soldiers and plain-clothes officials in U.S. flak jackets
carrying AK-47 rifles swarmed the street outside the hotel.
"I was driving beside the hotel when a white car suddenly
crashed through the security barrier and exploded," Iraqi
eyewitness Sabah Ghulam said.
The blast shook windows several blocks away. It was the
latest in a series of attacks aimed at Western targets in Iraq,
which the U.S. blames on guerrillas resisting the U.S.-led
occupation.
On Thursday, two suicide bombers crashed their car through
the gates of a police station in northeast Baghdad, killing at
least eight other Iraqis.
Last month, a suicide car bomb attack outside the United
Nations headquarters in Baghdad killed a security guard. A bomb
was also detonated outside a hotel used by U.S. television
network NBC, killing a security guard.
In August, a suicide bomber crashed a truck packed with
explosives into the United Nations compound, killing 22 people
including the head of mission, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Earlier
that month, a car bomb outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad
killed 17 people.
((Writing by Fiona O'Brien, editing by Philippa Fletcher))

 

[BigDaddy]

CNN:Braeking News

2 große Automben sind vor dem "Bagdad - Hotel" explodiert auf der sogenannten

In dem Hotele befindet sich die Zentrale des US-Geheimdienstes(CIA) und US Sicherheitskräfte, zurzeit gibt es 15 Tote, das Hotel liegt in der nähe des "Hotel Palestine" das hotel soll nun auch zum größten Teil eingestürzt sein!