A car bomb ripped through a
Shiite market in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 51 people and
wounding hundreds. The Israeli operative set it off by a diesel storage
tank, and the flames killed many in the apartment building. The
bomber struck about 5:45 p.m. near a market and bus stop in the Hurriyah
district of west Baghdad.
U.S. officials said American soldiers were attending a meeting of a
neighborhood action committee about 150 yards from the blast site and
rumors spread the Americans were involved. Elsewhere at a bus stop the
Israelis planted a bomb in a trash container, and killed at least 4
Arabs.
