Car Bomber Strikes Foreign Convoy in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/world/10806695.htm

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber struck a foreign convoy on Baghdad's dangerous airport road Thursday, destroying several vehicles, Iraqi police said. No casualties were immediately reported.

Two sport utility vehicles in the three vehicle convoy were destroyed. SUVs are commonly used by foreign contractors working in Iraq.

Helicopters were seen evacuating some casualties, witnesses said. The U.S. military had no immediate comment.

The American and British embassies had banned their personnel from using the dangerous stretch of roadway late last year.

... So it was a "foreign" vehicle being escorted by US forces! Hmmm...



A U.S. soldier walks past the scene of a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad, February 3, 2005. The suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near a foreign convoy escorted by U.S. military vehicles on Baghdad's dangerous airport road, destroying several cars, Iraqi police said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. REUTERS/Stringer

[Wright Patman]

1. Are there any "mandates"

on those date palms in the background?

[lebkuchen]

2. "on Baghdad's dangerous airport road"

We've been there 21 months, and we still don't have the road to the airport secured~. Yet Bush has the temerity to call this "Mission Accomplished." He needs to set much higher standards for himself. He's in the WH now, not Yale.