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AFP via translation -

The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister wounded in an attack in Baghdad

BAGHDAD - the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam Al-Zobaïe, a sunnite, was wounded in an attack Friday in Baghdad and transferred in an American hospital from the capital, one learned from sources American and Iraqi.
“It was allowed in a military hospital one hour ago (approximately 13H00, that is to say 10H00 GMT”, declared in AFP a spokesman of the American army, the lieutenant-colonel Christopher Garver.
According to a source of Iraqi safety, three people were killed and ten wounded in the double attack during which a booby-trapped car exploded and a kamikaze carrying a jacket faggot of explosives actuated its bomb, near the residence of the Deputy Prime Minister.

2 posted on 03/23/2007 4:08:45 AM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)

Ah internet translations...

According to a source of Iraqi safety, three people were killed and ten wounded in the double attack during which a booby-trapped car exploded and a kamikaze carrying a jacket faggot of explosives actuated its bomb, near the residence of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Que?

4 posted on 03/23/2007 4:12:33 AM PDT by Mr.Clark (From the darkness....I shall come)

Reuters -

IRAQI DEPUTY PM TAKEN TO U.S. HOSPITAL, NO COMMENT ON CONDITION - U.S. MILITARY SPOKESMAN

5 posted on 03/23/2007 4:13:07 AM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)

...a kamikaze carrying a jacket faggot of explosives

a jacket faggot?

16 posted on 03/23/2007 7:05:33 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)

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