Journalists’ Hotel in Baghdad Attacked

10/24/2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three enormous bombs, one of them a cement-mixing truck packed with explosives, blew up near an Iraqi police post near the Palestine Hotel - home to many foreign journalists in Iraq. Police said 17 people were killed.

The dead included Iraqi police and civilians, said Assistant Interior Minister Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamal.

A second bomb exploded not far from the police post which sits on the northeast side of Firdous Square, just east of the hotel grounds.