[Brian S]

Car bomb outside US Iraq office
From correspondents in Ankara, Turkey
September 10, 2003

A CAR bomb exploded overnight outside an office used by US soldiers in northern Iraq, private CNN-Turk television reported.

The wounded included Iraqi Kurdish guards and children from nearby houses in Irbil, the administrative capital of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, CNN-Turk reported.

The office was on the road between Irbil and the nearby hilltop town of Salahuddin, CNN-Turk said.

The US regional headquarters is located in a hilltop hotel between Irbil and Salahuddin, but it is not clear if it was the target of the attack.

A Turkish reporter at the scene said by telephone that the building was partly collapsed and most of the injured were from nearby houses

[Peach]

Why cars are permitted near any compound used by our military is beyond me. It's one of the easiest solutions to prevent car bombs - outside installations that are considered high target buildings.