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Suicide bomber attacks convoy in baghdad Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6745490 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6745490 Suicide Bomber Attacks U.S. Convoy in Baghdad Mon Nov 8, 2004 09:25 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up his red Opel car near a U.S. convoy on Baghdad's main airport road on Monday, killing at least three people, witnesses said. A Reuters photographer saw American soldiers taking three bodies from a four-wheel-drive vehicle wrecked in the blast and loading them on stretchers into a military ambulance. A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said in an Internet statement that it had carried out the attack. "A lion from the martyrs battalion rammed into a convoy of CIA cars ... on the Baghdad airport road this morning," Al Qaeda Organization of Holy War in Iraq said in the posting on a Web site used by Islamists. Its authenticity could not be verified. A police source said earlier that at least two Iraqis had been killed, one of them a woman. Interior Ministry spokesman Colonel Adnan Abdul-Rahman said he could give no casualty toll because U.S. troops had sealed off the area after the attack at 10 a.m. (0700 GMT). Bystanders said the white four-wheeled-drive that burned on the highway dividing strip was carrying officials and foreign security guards, but this could not be verified. U.S. troops in armored vehicles blocked off the area as U.S. warplanes and helicopters flew overhead. A U.S. army officer near the scene said the explosion had occurred about four km (2.5 miles) from the airport. He confirmed at least one vehicle had been hit. There was no word on any American casualties. A U.S. military spokesman said he had no information on the blast. There have been several suicide car bomb attacks on U.S. convoys using the main airport road in the last few days as insurgents try to show their strength in response to a planned U.S.-led offensive against the rebel-held city of Falluja.

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