TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2007
8:59 MECCA TIME, 5:59 GMT
Suicide bomber strikes Baghdad
Monday's fire broke out in the refinery's storage tank
sending a large plume of smoke into the sky [AFP]
A suicide car bomber has targeted the offices of
Iraq's former prime minister and a Sunni parliament
member, killing two policemen, agencies report.
Police and hospital officials said at least 12 people
were wounded in addition to the deaths as a result of
Tuesday morning's attack.
The bombing took place in western Baghdad, less than
150 yards from a series of buildings that included
offices of Iyad Allawi, Iraq's first post-Saddam prime
minister and a secular Shia, and those of Saleh
al-Mutlaq, leader of the National Dialogue Front,
according to police.
Neither was at the offices at the time of the
explosion.
The car bomber turned off the main road and
accelerated towards the checkpoint where the morning
shift guards were gathered, Iraqi police said.
Also on Tuesday, the US command in Iraq announced that
a US soldier had died of his wounds sustained when a
suicide bomber blew up a car near the soldier's convoy
in Salaheddin province north of Baghdad.
Two other soldiers were wounded in the blast, which
occurred on Monday.
Two attacks
Monday saw at least two major attacks in separate
areas of Iraq.
An explosive fire erupted in a storage tank at
Baghdad's only oil refinery, sending smoke and flames
high above the capital.
The US military said an "industrial accident" caused
the fire at the Dora refinery in Baghdad.
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But Brigadier Qassim al-Moussawi, the chief Iraqi
military spokesman, said that a rocket struck a
storage tank, triggering the blaze.
In the second attack, mortar shells crashed into an
Iraqi prison at a major government complex, landing in
a cellblock and killing at least five inmates.
Iraqi police and hospital officials said seven inmates
were killed and 23 more wounded when the mortar rounds
hit the jail, which held prisoners accused of
terrorism-related crimes or civil offences.
The US military said five people died and another 25
were injured.
Police said US troops sealed off the area around the
main interior ministry compound on the east bank of
the Tigris river in central Baghdad.
In other news, Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi foreign
minister, said a new security pact with the US would
set a time limit on the American troop presence.
He said the government's goal was "to reach a level of
preparedness" that removes the need for foreign
forces.
Iraq formally requested UN authorisation for the
US-led presence in Iraq, he said.
Possible pardons
Meanwhile, Iraqi officials said Nuri al-Maliki's
government was putting together a committee to study
possible pardons for several people convicted of
offences as a move towards national reconciliation.
Sadiq al-Rikabi, an adviser to the prime minister,
said a major task of the new committee would be to
determine whether some offences cannot be pardoned
under the Iraqi constitution, namely those involving
mass killings or financial corruption.
Some may require parliamentary approval while others
could be done by the government on its own, he said.
Source: Agencies
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