Bombing Rips Through Baghdad Hotel

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Source: Associated Press

Bombing rips through Baghdad hotel

By BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press Writer
7 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a central Baghdad hotel on Monday, killing seven people, police said. At least 12 other people were reported wounded.

A man wearing a belt of explosives walked into the lobby of the Mansour Hotel, approached the reception desk and detonated his bomb, said a police official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The high-rise hotel, on the banks of the Tigris River, houses the Chinese Embassy and some media organizations. A number of Iraqi parliament members also stay at the Mansour.

Yarmouk Hospital in west Baghdad received seven bodies and seven wounded from the bombing, a medical official there reported.




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1. Is this the part where we decide if the surge is working or not?

Sure seems like the violence has gotten worse.

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2. 5 Suicide Bombings Reported in Iraq

A suicide bomber who penetrated layers of security blew himself up in the busy lobby of a leading Baghdad hotel on Monday, killing at least 12 people, including a U.S.-allied tribal sheik, police reported.

The attack, in which 21 others were wounded, was just one in a surge of five suicide and other bombings Monday that killed at least 32 people across Iraq.

In an equally deadly attack, a suicide truck bomber targeted an Iraqi police station shared with U.S. troops in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, killing nine people. Five American soldiers suffered minor wounds, the U.S. command said.

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''It was a great breach of security because there are three checkpoints, one outside and two inside,'' said hotel worker Saif al-Rubaie, 28, who witnessed the blast and said all the casualties were Iraqis, most employees in the reception area.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Iraq.html