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An explosion at a Baghdad hotel today killed at least 27 people and wounded at least 40, according to news reports citing U.S. military officials at the scene. White House spokesman Scott McClellan called the bombing "a terrible terrorist attack on innocent civilians," and said it would not deter progress toward a free Iraq. "This remains a time of testing in Iraq," he said. "The stakes are high. The terrorists know the stakes are high, but they will not prevail. "We will meet this test with strength and with resolve," he continued. "Democracy is taking root in Iraq, and there...

Popular anger is forging an alliance between diverse strands of Iraq's guerrilla movement The suicide bomber who yesterday attacked the US-frequented Baghdad Hotel was the fourth member of the Iraqi resistance to kill themselves for the cause. The bombing came only three days after last week's suicide attack on a Baghdad police station that left at least eight people dead. From the meetings I have had with resistance fighters in different parts of Iraq, there is no doubt that there will be many more such attacks to come. The use of suicide bombing in Iraq - the first announced target...

US spokesman says several people have been arrested in connection with Sunday's bomb blast at a central Baghdad hotel. At least six people were killed in the suicide car bombing outside the Baghdad Hotel, where a number of US officials and Iraqi Governing Council members live. The American forces also say the toppled Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, was recently in hiding in his home town of Tikrit. A spokesman said Saddam continues to exert strong influence in the region. Meanwhile another American soldier has died in a mine explosion in northern Iraq. And a failed attempt to assassinate a regional...

Who is responsible for the suicide bombing in Baghdad? Sources from the Arab World speculate on who has an immediate interest in striking now. Analysts with inner knowledge of Middle East politics rush to review statements made by several vicious parties mentioned on the suspect list. At this point we do not know for certain who pulled off this act of destruction, but the usual suspects in all terrorist attacks are on the short list. Commentators in the West usually follow the judicial track. They wait for an FBI-like conclusion and the pieces of evidence. In sum, they treat each...

                    Sunday, October 12, 2003 U.S. forces quick to secure perimeterof Baghdad car-bombing site By Jason Chudy, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Monday, October 13, 2003 Jason Chudy / S&S A wounded Iraqi civilian, with a bandaged head and bloody shirt, talks to American soldiers near the scene of a car bombing outside the Baghdad Hotel. Within a half hour of the blast American troops and Iraqi police had set up a temporary perimeter about a block from the scene, later reinforcing it with concertina wire.Jason Chudy / S&S Numerous Iraqi civilians...

A huge explosion rocked central Baghdad today and smoke was billowing into the air from the direction of the Baghdad Hotel, believed to be a headquarters of the US Central Intelligence Agency in the Iraqi capital. The blast rattled windows in the Palestine Hotel, home to many members of the international press corps covering the aftermath of the US-led war in Iraq.