Car Bomb Explodes Near U.S. Base in Iraq

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded near the U.S. military base in northern Iraq (news - web sites) on Tuesday.



Eleven Iraqis were killed and 26 were wounded in the explosion, an Interior Ministry source told The Associated Press.


The blast occured around 9 a.m. outside the gates of the 1st Infantry Division's forward operating base, Summerall, in the town of Beiji, which is 155 miles north of Baghdad, press spokesman Capt. Bill Coppernoll said.'

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=4&u=/ap/20040601/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_car_bomb

[Dover]

1. This Aljazeera story mentions that a U.S. Humvee full of soldiers were

also killed.

Second explosion

In another incident on Tuesday, eleven Iraqi civilians were killed in a car bomb explosion outside a US military base in the northern town of Bayji, a senior Iraqi security official said.

"The accident happened at 9:30 am (05:30 GMT) this morning when a black BMW with a bearded man inside blew up, setting fire to several other cars in the area," said Lieutenant Hamid Masud of the US-trained Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC).

He said another 26 people, including two ICDC members, were wounded in the blast in Bayji, some 35km north of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.

Amr Abid Ismail, an Iraqi contractor who works at the military
base in Bayji, was lightly wounded in the explosion.

"I was standing at the gate of the military base when a black
BMW blew up right by a US Humvee. I'm sure all the soldiers inside were killed. Then I fainted," he told reporters.

There was no immediate confirmation of the casualty toll from
the US military.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DAD72172-666F-4C4B-A6DD-874453F7B05B.htm

[maddezmom]

2. wonder when the US press will get the news? n/t

[keithyboy]

3. You mean, you wonder if they will even report it.

New US military deaths is not what Bush wants to hear.

[saigon68]

4. THEY WON'T REPORT SQUAT

They don't want to upset the SHEEP.

Oh and BTW the Scott Peterson Jury Trial starts its 5-6 month RUN TODAY !!!!!!!!