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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/18/sprj.nitop.baghdad.blast/index.html
Source: Baghdad bomber may have used unsuspecting Iraqis
At least 23 reported killed in huge suicide blast
Sunday, January 18, 2004 Posted: 2:03 PM EST (1903 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber who killed nearly two dozen people in Baghdad on Sunday attempted to enter a heavily fortified zone around coalition headquarters and may have used eight unsuspecting Iraqis in the back of his truck to disguise his intentions, a security source told CNN.
The security source said the bomber was carrying eight Iraqis, who appeared to be day laborers, in the back of the truck.
"We don't think they knew it was a bomb," he said.
The security source said that the driver of the white Toyota truck approached the gate to the Green Zone early Sunday and was refused entry. The driver then took his truck around an adjacent traffic circle, stopped and waited.
When a civilian security convoy arrived on its way into the Green Zone to escort someone out of the compound, the bomber rammed the vehicle in the back of the convoy and set off the device, the source said. Six Iraqi security officers in the convoy were killed and several others were wounded, the source said.
The identity of the person who was to be escorted out of the Green Zone was not disclosed.
U.S. Brig. Gen. Mark Hertling of the 1st Armored Division said the truck was carrying 1,000 pounds of military-grade, plastic explosives when it tried to enter "Assassin's Gate" -- the northern entrance to the Green Zone -- shortly before 8 a.m. (12 a.m. ET).
U.S. military sources say at least 23 people were killed -- most of them Iraqi civilians -- and more than 60 were wounded when the explosives detonated.
"We have indications that some of those that were killed were American citizens, U.S. contractors," said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt during a Baghdad news conference. "We believe the current number at two. We're waiting for firmer confirmation."
Earlier, U.S. military sources said that two Department of Defense workers were among the dead, but could not specify their occupations or nationalities.
Also appearing at the news conference, Iraqi Governing Council spokesman Hamid al-Kafai said at least 20 people had been killed in the attack, The Associated Press reported.
Coalition officials earlier said three others had died at al-Karama hospital. (Hospital scene)
L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Baghdad, condemned the bombing, which he said "was clearly timed to claim the maximum possible number of innocent victims."
Many of the victims were trapped inside their vehicles.
Bremer said the plan to hand over authority to a new Iraqi government in July "remains unchanged." (Full story)
About 90 percent of the explosion was absorbed by blast barriers, protecting the headquarters from damage, according to Capt. Jason Beck of the 1st Armored Division.
At the U.S. military's 28th combat support hospital in the Green Zone, 20 people were dead and 29 wounded, including three U.S. soldiers and three U.S. civilians, Beck said.
In addition to the three deaths reported at al-Karama hospital, other hospitals reported receiving a total of 34 wounded Iraqis, bringing the total of wounded Iraqis to 63.
Most of the dead are believed to be Iraqi civilians, although sources said two Iraqi police officers are among the dead.
The bombing took place as many Iraqis lined up at security checkpoints near the gate to start their workday or apply for a job at the Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters.
Traffic packed a major intersection just outside the entrance at the time of the blast and many of the Iraqis killed were in their vehicles waiting to pass through a checkpoint, a U.S. military spokesman said.
A wounded Iraqi is rescued from the blast scene.
"We're hearing that the fireball was huge and that they didn't have a chance," the unnamed spokesman said, referring to the Iraqis inside the cars. The force of the blast destroyed at least six vehicles, Beck said.
One Iraqi citizen was able to pull two people from a burning car, but could not save the other two because of the intense heat.
An Iraqi driver who survived the blast said the force sent his car into the air, landing 109 yards (100 meters) away.
"I was driving ... toward the bridge when a car exploded," said Jasim Mohammed, who had a visible injury to his face. "I felt my car going up in the air and landing again. All of a sudden, everything turned red and there was a very strong explosion."
Initial video of the aftermath showed three vehicles engulfed in flames, and several Iraqi civilians lying on the ground, bloodied. U.S. troops and tanks were on the scene and gunshots could be heard in the background.
The blast happened a day after a powerful roadside bomb ripped through a Bradley Fighting Vehicle north of Baghdad, killing three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi civil defense forces.
Also Sunday, a roadside bomb detonated in Basra near a British military vehicle, but no one was injured, according to a British military spokesman.
Late Saturday, two Iraqis were killed in Tikrit when an explosive device detonated inside the car they were riding in, military sources said. A third occupant of the white Mercedes has been hospitalized and will be questioned, the sources said. There were no U.S. casualties in the blast.
CNN's Karl Penhaul, Alphonso Van Marsh, Satinder Bindra and Sheila MacVicar contributed to this report
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