UKIndep: Iraqi resistance targets CIA

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=452696

Iraqi resistance targets CIA, killing six in suicide bomb
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
13 October 2003


Suicide bombers driving two cars attacked a central Baghdad hotel yesterday where senior US officials and CIA agents are thought to have been staying. At least six people were killed and 32 wounded.

All of the dead and most of the injured were Iraqis. But the blast, aimed at a hotel full of American officials, showed the effectiveness of the resistance in its campaign to destabilise the US presence.

The heavily guarded Baghdad hotel was used by American officials, security agents, members of the Iraq Governing Council and US building contractors. It was also believed by Iraqis to house members of the CIA and there were rumours in Baghdad that it was home to members of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.

The bombers struck shortly after midday. Witnesses said one was driving a Toyota. He suddenly swerved out of a lane of traffic on Sadoun Avenue, a busy commercial road, and rammed his vehicle through the gates in the 12-foot concrete defences around the hotel

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what is a US soldier doing standing up in that
open Hummer ?

or at least it looks like the back of a small older type Hummer.


he's out in the open
standing up, all exposed

so.....

NO protected Hummer, that is a Hummer that has
NO armor.

why am I not surprised that the soldier
is not white ? Why is it always the
minorities at front with limited equipment ?