Friday, April 14, 2006

Images: Eyewitness Iraq, Fri. 14 Apr.

MIDDLE EAST

A US soldier secures the area around a police station damaged in a blast in Mosul. Nearly half of Americans believe their government should mind its own business internationally and only one third approves of how US President George W. Bush is handling Iraq, a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll said.(AFP/Mujahed Mohammed) Iraqi men clean up the wreckage of a suicide car bomb after it exploded beside a British military convoy, in Basra, 550 kms south of Baghdad. Two Iraqis were killed and four British servicemen were wounded when a four-vehicle convoy of the British military was attacked by the suicide car bomber.(AFP/Essam al-Sudani)
An Iraqi policeman walks past the wreckage of a car after a bomb exploded on a man installing the explosives to be used as a car bomb, in a residential neighborhood in Baghdad.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi) A US Army Humvee carrying soldiers from the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne division guard the premises of Iraq's Northern Oil Company, outside Kirkuk. Somewhere underneath Kirkuk are an estimated 10 billion barrels of oil. Yet disintegrating infrastructure and a relentless campaign of sabotage has restricted the flow of the area's greatest resource to a trickle.(AFP)
An Iraqi boy stands, in the rubble of a small Shiite shrine destroyed by gunmen in the restive city of Baquba, 60 kms northeast of Baghdad. At least 42 Iraqis have been killed in attacks over the past 24 hours, security officials said, as politicians pressed four-month-old coalition talks amid the mounting sectarian unrest.(AFP/Ali Yussef) Iraqi men carry the coffin of a victim of a suicide bomb attack Friday April 14, 2006 in Baqouba, 60 km (35 miles) northeast of Baghdada, Iraq. Two roadside bombings near two Sunni mosques located about 2 kms (1 mile) apart in the city of Baqouba killed at least four civilians and wounded six, police said.(AP Photo/Mohammed Adnan)
US Soldiers and Iraqi police secure the site of a car bomb explosion Friday April 14, 2006 in Mosul, 360 km (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. A suicide car bomber attacked a police station in Mosul wounding at least seven people when he detonated his explosives. five civilians were among those wounded, police said.(AP Photo Mohammed Ibrahim) An Iraqi mourner shouts during a funeral procession for Mahmoud al-Hashimi, whose brother Tariq heads Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political party, Friday April 14, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Hashimi was slain along with a companion Thursday as they drove through a mostly Shiite area, the Iraqi Islamic Party said. Tariq al-Hashimi is among the key players in negotiations over a new national unity government, which have stalled over the issue of who will be the next prime minister.(AP Photo/Mohammed Hato)

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