NPR journalists narrowly escape Iraq car bomb

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Dec 1 (Reuters) - A team of journalists working for U.S. media company National Public Radio narrowly escaped a car bombing in Baghdad after Iraqi soldiers warned them a device had been attached to the bottom of their armoured car, NPR said.

NPR correspondent Ivan Watson, Iraqi producer and translator Ali Hamdani, and two Iraqi drivers who did not want to be named, had stopped on Sunday to conduct interviews in a kebab shop, a few yards from an Iraqi army checkpoint, NPR said.

They spent around 45 minutes interviewing people and eating lunch in Rabiye street, once a major shopping area before Iraq descended into sectarian bloodshed following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

As the reporting team was heading back to their car, Iraqi soldiers ran up to them screaming "bomb" in Arabic and pointing at their parked car. Seconds later, the car exploded and burst into flames, the U.S. media company said.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSL1251190._CH_.2400

[Algorem]

1. was going to report something other than "good news"?

[antimatter98]

2. Agreed. Their story was probably "why Iraqis are happy with America."n/t

[nightrain]

3. more reason to get out of Iraq ASAP, or STAT!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Jeebus.

Someone really doesn't like "Car Talk", huh?