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Blasts rock coalition headquarters
Gulf Daily News ^ | 10-16-03

Posted on 10/15/2003 10:15:32 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy

Blasts rock coalition headquarters

BAGHDAD:

Two explosions rocked central Baghdad late last night near the headquarters of the US-led Coalitional Provisional Authority (CPA), said CPA spokesman Charles Heatly.

The CPA headquarters is located in toppled president Saddam Hussein's former Republican Palace.

Witnesses on the other side of the Tigris river said they heard two large booms in the palace area and saw tanks on the move.

Earlier, unidentified gunmen assassinated the director of a hospital in the southern city of Basra. Colleagues said Haider Al Baaj, chief doctor at Basra's teaching hospital, was shot dead with a single bullet to the head as he was leaving his private clinic at sunset.

The assailant and his accomplice fled.

Elsewhere, one person was injured when Iraqi police fired shots to disperse demonstrators marking the anniversary of a pro-Saddam referendum and protesting a new currency that no longer features the toppled dictator's face.

Underlining US support for the new dinar, US Commerce Secretary Donald Evans attended a ceremony to mark the launch of the bills.

A speeding car fired shots in front of the Baghdad Hotel the site of a car bomb attack three days ago that killed eight people including the bomber, according to witnesses.

Security guards and US soldiers fired back at the car.

Meanwhile, the US Congress opened debate on an $87 billion (BD33bn) appropriation fund for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, the chairman of Iraq's transitional Governing Council, Ayad Allawi, said elections will "definitely" be held next year in the war-torn country, speaking at a summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, in Malaysia.

Syria last night denied assailants had infiltrated Iraq from Syria, following a US military report that several people were killed after having crossed the border and fired at an American helicopter.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blast; cpa; cpahqblast; iraq; palace
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1 posted on 10/15/2003 10:15:33 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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2 posted on 10/15/2003 10:15:54 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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3 posted on 10/15/2003 10:16:31 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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4 posted on 10/15/2003 10:17:17 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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This is a big story at Google News
5 posted on 10/15/2003 10:17:51 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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6 posted on 10/15/2003 10:18:50 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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7 posted on 10/15/2003 10:19:17 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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8 posted on 10/15/2003 10:19:43 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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9 posted on 10/15/2003 10:20:20 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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Is this just recent? Any more details?
10 posted on 10/15/2003 10:20:38 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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Your pinger is stuck :P
11 posted on 10/15/2003 10:38:12 PM PDT by I_love_weather
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To: PatrioticCowboy
Patriotic Cowboy again?

You know there is good news in Iraq as I keep trying to tell you. You don't have to keep posting only the bad.

12 posted on 10/15/2003 10:42:50 PM PDT by Aaron0617
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Patriotic Cowboy were you against the war? Is this your way of getting back at everyone that supported it??
13 posted on 10/15/2003 10:44:36 PM PDT by Aaron0617
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You haven't seen anything yet. This is just the beginning.
14 posted on 10/15/2003 10:49:39 PM PDT by RLK
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It is brand new
15 posted on 10/15/2003 10:49:59 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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To: I_love_weather
I am sorry.

I am drinking tonight
16 posted on 10/15/2003 10:50:35 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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I am for the war, but I do not think our military is brutal enough
17 posted on 10/15/2003 10:51:17 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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You mean the resistance against our military will only escalate?
18 posted on 10/15/2003 10:52:02 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
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Where jsut went there nothing there, bottom of the hour nothing on Fox.

Top story Cubs Lose

19 posted on 10/15/2003 10:52:29 PM PDT by dts32041 (Is it time to practice decimation with our representatives?)
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COWBOY UP
20 posted on 10/15/2003 10:53:04 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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