Iraqi Jihad Strikes Again
Charles Johnson
Mon May 17, 2004 at 7:02 am PDT • Views: 162
Suicide Car Bomb Kills Iraq Governing Council Chief.
Deputy Foreign Minister Hamed al-Bayati said the other councilors near the checkpoint at the time escaped unharmed.
“They managed to get through the checkpoint before the explosion. Salim was still waiting to enter,” Bayati said.
The second suicide car bomb attack on a Green Zone checkpoint this month may have been aimed at the 25-member council gathering for a meeting.
More than a dozen vehicles were destroyed, including minibuses from which doctors wearing masks and rubber gloves pulled burned bodies.
“There were a lot of cars and people on foot standing there, and then this massive explosion,” said Raad Mukhlis, a security guard at a nearby residential compound. “I saw body parts and martyrs everywhere.”
“Martyrs?”
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