CNN Breaking: 3 car bombs hit near Palestine Hotel in Baghdad

[highplainsdem]

That's the hotel where so many journalists and international workers stay.

CNN reporting there are casualties.


Editing to add a correction per an AP story at http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/10/24/international/i074537D74.DTL

It was two rockets and a car bomb.

Two rockets and a car bomb hit the Palestine Hotel on Monday, wounding at least two people and causing considerable damage to the building that houses many foreign journalists, Iraqi police said.

Video of the blast showed huge clouds of smoke and dust billowing. At least one fire was started by falling debris.

The attacks shattered windows and caused heavy damage to the south side of the 19-story hotel, forcing journalists, including those from The Associated Press, to take refuge in the corridor. refuge in the corridor. Inside the hotel, pictures were blown off walls.

Maj. Abbas Mohammed Suleiman said the hotel compound was hit by two rockets and one car bomb.

[mnmoderatedem]

1. all is well

no problem here, move along now....

[xchrom]

2. ummm -- isn't that in the secure green zone?

i use the word secure loosely.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Freedom is on the march!

[highplainsdem]

4. The video they've showed is from an AP camera. They said AP's

also reporting that journalists had gone to the lobby of the hotel to report on the first two blasts when the third, largest bomb went off.

[Taxloss]

5. More last throes.

The Palestine is the main media hotel. Media casualties in Iraq have just hit 100, making this the blooiest conflict ever for journalists.

[highplainsdem]

6. CNN covering the story again. Still no definite info on the number of

casualties. Nic Robertson saying that Iraqi police had rushed to the scene before the third bomb went off.

[highplainsdem]

7. Now reporting 10 dead, at least 15 injured.