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Suicide bomber hits baghdad checkpoint again Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=327816 http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=327816 Suicide Car Bomber Hits Baghdad Checkpoint Again Reuters Dec. 14, 2004 - A suicide car bomber struck an entrance to Baghdad's Green Zone government compound Tuesday, 24 hours after an almost identical attack at the same checkpoint on the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein's arrest. Hospital staff said 12 civilians were wounded, five of them seriously. No Americans were hurt, the U.S. spokesman said. "There's been a VBIED (car bomb) at Checkpoint 12," the military spokesman said. Police said it was a suicide attack. "I saw a KIA car drive through the checkpoint and it exploded," said bus driver Mohammed Kathem as he lay wounded at the civilian Yarmuk hospital. "I'm sure two National Guards next to it were killed," he added, although the U.S. spokesman said he knew of no Iraqi military casualties. "Two of the people standing next to me were killed. I saw them cut to pieces," said another wounded man, Feras Saher, a labourer who was lining up to go into work in the Green Zone. Essan Nasser, an official who keeps patient records at the nearby Yarmuk civilian hospital, told Reuters 12 people, all men, had been brought in wounded and there were no dead bodies at the hospital, though that might change. Earlier, a doctor at the hospital said he thought one or two were dead and 15-20 wounded. At least seven people died in Monday's bombing and 19 were wounded. A Reuters journalist at the scene Tuesday said the explosion went off close to a recruiting center for the U.S.- trained Iraqi National Guard, which sits by the checkpoint. The blast shook Baghdad at 8:20 a.m. (12:20 a.m. EST), sending up a cloud of smoke, just as people were going to work and lining up to get into the Green Zone in cars. Monday's attack, at 9 a.m., came on the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein's capture by U.S. troops. The Green Zone, which now houses the Iraqi interim government and U.S. embassy, was previously Saddam's presidential palace. (Additional reporting by Alastair Macdonald, Seif Fouad and Waleed Ibrahim) Copyright 2004 Reuters News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Copyright © 2004 ABC News Internet Ventures

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