Baghdad bombing targets Jordan

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BAGHDAD – You don't have to be an American soldier to risk life and limb in Iraq these days.

Unknown assailants Thursday detonated an apparent car bomb in front of the Jordanian embassy in the Iraqi capital, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 50 - none of them Americans. Most of the dead were reportedly Iraqis, including police officers guarding the embassy.

The attack constitutes the most significant attack on a "soft" or nonmilitary target since the US occupation of the country began nearly four months ago, according to Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of US ground forces in Iraq.

The risks to US soldiers continue. Even as General Sanchez was informing reporters that the pace of attacks against his troops had slowed, US soldiers in central Baghdad were fighting off Iraqi assailants who had attacked their Humvee with a rocket-propelled grenade. At least one American was wounded in the attack and at least one Iraqi was killed in the ensuing firefight.

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Jordanian officials condemned the embassy attack, which destroyed part of the compound's outer wall and littered a wide traffic median in front of the building with twisted bits of metal and some human remains. "This criminal act will only make Jordan more determined to lend a helping hand to our brothers, the Iraqi people," said Information Minister Nabil al-Sharif.

But the Iraqi people - both those opposed to the US occupation of their country and those in favor of it - have reasons to be frustrated with Jordan.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0808/p06s02-woiq.html

nothing right...

"This criminal act will only make Jordan more determined to lend a helping hand to our brothers, the Iraqi people," said Information Minister Nabil al-Sharif.

your brothers? is this why Iraq people took off their shoes and attacked pictures of King Hussein with them?
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