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Suicide car bomb kills two in Basra
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-09 18:45
A suicide car bomb killed two people Sunday outside an
apartment building used by the Iranian-backed Badr Brigade, a Shiite militia
linked to one of the main parties in the Iraqi government, police said.
Iraqis scramble to put out a fire after a
building caught alight following a suicide car bomb attack in Basra, Iraq,
Sunday Oct. 9, 2005. A suicide car bomb exploded on Sunday outside an
apartment building used by the Iranian-backed Badr Brigade, a Shiite
militia linked to one of the main parties in the Iraqi government, killing
two people and wounding three, police said.
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The early morning blast also injured three people near the three-story
building in central Basra. Those who escaped injury included former Basra Gov.
Hassan al-Rashid, a senior local leader of the brigade who was in the building
at the time of the attack, said police Capt. Mushtak Kadim.
The Badr Brigade is the military wing of the Supreme Council of Islamic
Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, the largest Shiite party in the Iraqi government.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack in Basra, a mostly
Shiite city in southern Iraq where the majority of Britain's 8,500 forces in the
U.S.-led coalition are based.
Despite earlier claims that British soldiers had created
much better security in southern Iraq than other areas of the country beset by
Sunni-led insurgent groups, Shiite militias appear to have been growing in power
in the mostly Shiite region. They are infiltrating police forces and local
political organizations, and allegedly attacking British and U.S. forces.
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