baghdad blasts during UN press conference

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhWcVcoeb08

Baghdad blast shakes up visiting UN head
Steven Edwards, CanWest News ServicePublished: Thursday, March 22, 2007
UNITED NATIONS

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Iraq deputy PM hurt in suicide bombing

BAGHDAD -        Iraq's deputy prime minister, a Sunni who crossed the country's sectarian divide to join the Shiite-led government, was gravely wounded Friday in a suicide bombing at a mosque in the courtyard of his home, his chest pierced with shrapnel, authorities said. Nine people were reported killed in the attack.
The bomber blew himself up as Salam al-Zubaie, one of two deputies to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and other worshippers were leaving the mosque near the heavily fortified Green Zone, according to police and a Sunni politician. Al-Zubaie was hospitalized in serious condition after undergoing surgery, a top Sunni official said.
The attack came after a statement purportedly by an al-Qaida umbrella group singled out the Sunni deputy prime minister as a stooge "to the crusader occupiers."
Ziad al-Ani, a top official from the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party, said al-Zubaie was in "serious condition" at the hospital's intensive care unit. He said the politician's condition was worse than initially thought because shrapnel had penetrated his chest.
U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said al-Zubaie was in a hospital run by the U.S. in the Green Zone but would not comment on his condition.
Police said nine people were killed in the attack, including an adviser to the deputy prime minister, and 14 were wounded, including five of al-Zubaie's bodyguards. The adviser, Mufeed Abdul-Zahra, was wounded and died later at the hospital.
Police said the attack occurred as worshippers were leaving, while al-Ani, said the bomber blew himself up inside the mosque during the traditional weekly prayer service. Police said a car parked nearby exploded at about the same time.
Baghdad authorities have imposed a weekly four-hour vehicle ban on Fridays to protect the services from suicide car bombers.
The mosque was built inside the courtyard of al-Zubaie's compound in a residential area behind the Foreign Ministry, but worshippers can access it from the street outside, al-Ani said. The compound is near the Green Zone, which houses the U.S. and British embassies and the Iraqi government headquarters.

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agak menyeramkan keadaan keselamatan di iraq sekarang. 2 serangan high profiles dalam masa 2 hari, tidak termasuk serangan2 bom lain yg mengorbankan ramai lagi penduduk iraq.

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon handled that pretty good. Maliki didn't even flinch one bit!

err ~ If not Ban and Maliki had been killed, live on television!


check the video: http://player.clipsyndicate.com/player/play/190/184646?noresize=1