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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2023
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IRAQ
Three car bombs shatter Baghdad's oldest market
BY KIM GAMEL ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Thunderous car bombs shattered a crowded marketplace in the heart of Baghdad on Monday, triggering secondary explosions, engulfing an eight-story building in flames and killing at least 78 people in the latest in a series of similar attacks aimed at the country's Shiite majority.
The blasts in three parked cars obliterated shops and stalls and left bodies scattered among mannequins and other debris in pools of blood. Dense smoke blackened the area and rose hundreds of feet from the market district on the east bank of the Tigris River. Small fires, fueled by clothing and other goods, burned for hours in the rubble-strewn street as firefighters battled blazes in two buildings.
"Where is the government? Where is the security plan?" survivors screamed. "We have had enough. We have lost our money and goods and our source of living."
The attack appeared timed to
coincide with the first anniversary — on the Muslim lunar calendar — of the bombing of a Shite shrine in the town of Samarra north of Baghdad, an al-Qaida provocation which unleashed the torrent of sectar-
Monday, according to police reports. About 30 minutes before the attack on the market, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest in a crowd near a popular falafel restaurant in the nearby Bab al-Sharqi area. Nine people were killed and 19 wounded.
A 15-minute period of commemoration in the capital marking the February 2006 attack on the al-Askariya shrine had just ended when attack on the market took place.
mour — though his bodyguards did
— as he called for unity and said he
was optimistic about the U.S. Iraqi
security sweep that officials said will
gain momentum this week.
Nationwide, 139 people were killed or found dead in violence on
ian bloodletting that has gripped the capital for months.
The Shite prime minister didn't flinch — though his boyhood did
The sound of two of the blasts was caught on tape as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was delivering a speech live on television from the Cabinet building in the heavily fortified Green Zone at the end of the commemoration.
Monday's bombings wrecked the Shoria market, Baghdad's oldest, a day after joint U.S. and Iraqi forces temporarily sealed an adjacent neighborhood. The operation was part of the latest Baghdad security push to which President Bush has committed an additional 21,500 American troops. The U.S. military would not say if it had increased security patrols against potential violence on the Samarra anniversary.
"Where is the government? Where is the security plan?" survivors screamed. "We have had enough. We have lost our money and goods and our source of living."
"We have great faith in our security services, army and police who have proved that they are a real protective force for this country, and we have faith that Iraqis have real
ized that there will be no future for this country unless terrorism is curbed," he said.
Brig, Abdul-
Karim Khalaf,
the Interior
M i n s t r y
spokesman, told
Iraqiya state
television that
three suspects
were arrested — an Iraqi and two foreigners — in the attack on the marketplace.
The car bombs exploded within seconds of each other. One of the cars was parked near the entrance to a parking garage under one of the two targeted buildings, about 200 yards apart.
Ambulances and pickup trucks rushed many of the 166 wounded to nearby al Kindi Hospital in the largely Shite neighborhood, which has been hit by a series of deadly bombings this year.
INTERNATIONAL British Attorney General decries Guantanamo Bay
MIAMI — Revised rules for the treatment and military trials of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp are "too little and too late" Britain's attorney general said Monday, repeating his call to close the facility.
Attorney General Lord Goldsmith said Guantanamo remains a symbol of injustice because prisoners held in the facility in Cuba cannot use American courts to protest their detention and may be convicted of crimes on the basis of coerced evidence and other means not typically allowed in civilian courts.
"There remain fundamental problems with this system of detention," Goldsmith told the American Bar Association at its meeting in Miami.
Goldsmith said the fight against
terrorists must be won not only through force, but also values and ideas.
"The presence of Guantanamo makes it so much more difficult to do this for all of us," he said.
Cmdr J.D. Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, said the detentions have allowed interrogators to learn information to avert terrorist attacks and kept so-called enemy combatants from returning to the battlefield.
"The detainees at Guantanamo include some of the world's most vicious terrorist operatives, including those who are alleged to have planned the attacks of Sept. 11, the bombing of USS Cole and the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania." Gordon said. "We have no desire to be the world's jailer and do not hold detainees for any longer than necessary. We have been working to persuade other countries to accept their citizens."
Associated Press
J. Pat Carter/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A small memorial to Nana Nicole Smith sits against a tree Sunday in Dania Beach, Fla. in front of the Broward County Medical Examiner's office where her body is kept as lawsuits continue.
》 CELEBRITY
Photos of Smith, official surface
BY MICHAEL MELIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASSAU, Bahamas — Photographs of Anna Nicole Smith in bed embracing the Bahamian immigration minister who approved her application for permanent residency here revoived a scandal in the islands Monday.
A private pathologist has said methadone contributed to the death of Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel in the Bahamas in September. Daniel Smith died while visiting his mother and newborn half-sister in a Bahamas hospital and an inquest into his death in the Bahamas is planned.
Two photographs published on the front page of The Tribune of Nassau Monday showed Smith and Immigration Minister Shane Gibson, both fully clothed, embracing on a bed decorated with pink flowers and a white ribbon. In one of the photos, they look into each other's eyes, their faces a couple of inches apart.
Also Monday, the son-in-law of the American developer embroiled in an ownership dispute over the Nassau mansion where Smith was living said he found methadone in her bedroom refrigerator when he went to secure the estate following her death in Florida last week.
Gibson, an elected member of Parliament from the ruling Progressive Liberal Party, has already been accused of showing Smith preferential treatment by fast-tracking her residency application last year. With general elections due this spring, many said the photographs, taken in
Smith's bedroom, could damage the ruling party.
implications."
Cassius Stuart, leader of the Bahamas Democratic Movement, said Gibson has "shamed" the Bahamas and called for him to resign.
Ron Rale, a lawyer for Smith and representative of her most recent companion, Howard K. Stern, scrambled Monday to keep control over items he said were stolen from the mansion over the weekend, including images from a computer taken from the house.
"He should do the right thing and step down," he told reporters outside Smith's Nassau residence. The BDM is a small opposition party with no seats in parliament.
Gibson did not return calls seeking comment. But government
John Marquis, managing editor of The Tribune declined to say who provided the photographs. He said he published them because of their potential political impact.
spokesman Al Dilille dismissed any suggestion of impropriety.
"Minister Gibson is a friend of Anna Nicole, and that's all a matter of public record" he said.
Rale said anyone who disseminates the items without his prior written consent "will be held liable to the fullest extent of the law."
"For the Bahamas, it's not just a salacious story," he said. "It's a story with pretty far-reaching political
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