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Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 | By Claude Salhani

Posted on 01/19/2004 10:09:03 PM PST by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:12:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Sunday's powerful truck bomb blast in Baghdad that killed about 23 people, including two people working for U.S. contractors, and injured more than 70 others, serves as a grim reminder of the precarious situation in Iraq.

The blast, about 8 a.m. Sunday at the coalition headquarters' very front gate, comes as L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq, heads to the United Nations, hoping to convince the world body to return to Iraq and help the United States establish a feasible exit strategy from what is turning out to be a complicated political imbroglio.


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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbomb; cpahq; iraq
Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Quote of the Day by floriduh voter

1 posted on 01/19/2004 10:09:03 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
"Sunday's powerful truck bomb blast in Baghdad that killed about 23 people..."

What kind of journalist uses such a phrase? Perhaps one who is just about human... but not quite.

2 posted on 01/19/2004 10:30:41 PM PST by kritikos (Truly true truth)
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