Baghdad terrorists defy security plan
The blast occurred in central Baghdad
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Sunday, 25, Feb 2007 08:03
A suicide bomber has killed at least 42 people outside a university building in Baghdad.
The attacker targeted the entrance to the economic and management buildings of Mustansriyah University, wounding at least 30 others including students and employees of the college.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, ten people died from two rockets fired in the Abu Dishir area of the city.
And two people are now reported to have been killed in this morning's bombing close to the Iranian embassy.
The car bomb attack took place approximately 100 metres away from the embassy compound but no damage was reported to its building.
Iranian news agency Irna quoted a source denying the blast's proximity to the Iranian embassy, "contrary to what has been reported by Sunday's media".
Today's wave of devastating attacks came after US coalition forces launched air strikes in the south of the city last night. Iraqi government officials said the raids were launched against known terrorists operating in the city.
Baghdad is currently the subject of the US and Iraqi forces' security plan, being implemented as US president George Bush's solution to a lack of progress surrounding Iraq's unstable security situation.
Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki yesterday said that the security plan was making progress, despite the deaths of at least 35 people in a bombing in the town of Habbaniyah earlier in the day.