Posted on 10/14/2003 6:42:59 AM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
Suicide bombing outside Turkish mission in Baghdad - report
ANKARA (AFX) - A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad, wounding two employees of the Turkish mission, Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported.
No further details were immediately available
Turkish Embassy Blast in Iraq Kills Two
Posted on 10/14/2003 8:52 AM EDT by a_Turk
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Tuesday at the gates of the Turkish embassy, killing two people including the driver and injuring two or three others, witnesses and U.S. soldiers said.
Turkish NTV television said two embassy employees were hurt.
Witnesses said the car tried to ram through the gates of the embassy at mid-afternoon and suddenly exploded. U.S. troops and Iraqi police sealed off the area and would not permit journalists and others to approach the building.
The blast occurred two days after a powerful car bomb exploded at the Baghdad Hotel, home to U.S. officials and members of the Iraqi Governing Council. At least eight people including the bomber were killed.
Turkey's parliament has approved a government request to send peacekeeping troops to Iraq, a move hailed in Washington but opposed by the Iraqi Governing Council and the country's Kurdish minority. The Turks would be the first major contingent from a Muslim country.
On Tuesday, radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said there would be no difference between Turkish soldiers and members of the U.S.-led force, which he wants to leave the country.
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