The bombings targeted two government ministries, a Baghdad courthouse, a commercial district and a neighborhood and were the worst since twin car bombings killed and wounded hundreds of people in late October.
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Minutes earlier, another blast close to the finance ministry in another hitherto relatively safe area of the city is reported to have affected a raised highway nearby. ... An Iraqi army spokesman said two al-Qaeda members had been arrested in a Baghdad district in connection with the attacks.
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Dec 9, 2009 ... Rescuers carried a victim of a bomb attack in Baghdad on Tuesday. Five bombs were set off in the capital, at least three of them by suicide bombers. ... In August, two suicide car bombs struck the country's Finance ... Those attacks became known as Bloody Sunday and Bloody Wednesday, respectively. ...
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It seems that "F" was looking for the identity of this building, since "F" was stationed just a stone's throw away from it, ("F" has lived in the building shown two pictures above with the Gold Dome since late 2003) and stumbled across this web page. ... "But this is a common problem of this area of Baghdad.
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Nov 16, 2004 ... Although the whole area was supposedly secure, .... that were perched in the towering Palestine Hotel, located directly across the Tigris river in downtown Baghdad. .... Everywhere in Baghdad were the bombed-out shells and burned and .... and the relatively light skirmishes within the city indicated ...
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Many residents of the capital live in poverty and have been forced to make homes out of the bombed out buildings destroyed by years of war. Tamim; POPULATION ; 854,470 ; Previously known as Kirkuk, this province is home to ... Residents typically bus to central Baghdad for work. The neighborhood, considered relatively safe,
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Apr 7, 2004 ... For six months we had gone all over Baghdad and Iraq, .... He shrugged and said that there were lots of security compounds in the area and he wasn't sure .... their relatively low-key houses and into hotels within security compounds. ... Across the street, two men in jackets and ties sat at a small ...
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Across the city, ... Minutes later, in another market in eastern Baghdad, two more people died and 12 were wounded in a fifth blast. "The explosion caused major damage to buildings and even hurt some children," Abdul-Jabar Saad, a shopkeeper, ... U.S. and Iraqi soldiers secure the area of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq...
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And two former senior officials of the C.I.A. ... The difficulty of determining who is responsible for the chaos in Iraq can be seen in Basra, in the Shiite south, where British forces had earlier presided over a relatively secure area. Over the course of this year, however, the region became increasingly ungovernable,
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The woman with the two black eyes, ... The classrooms serving as polling stations across the relatively secure and prosperous plains north of the Afghan capital were crammed full of people – but precious few of them were there to cast their vote. Election workers and ... As Baghdad reels from its bloodiest day this year,
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