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Iraqi Insurgent Gives Chilling Confession
U.S. soldiers patrol the scene of a car bombing in Sadr City, a largely Shiite area of Baghdad. Nine people were killed in the attack, Iraqi police said.
(By Karim Kadim -- Associated Press)
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In an interview with CNN's "Your World Today" program, Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, acknowledged that parts of Iraq's Anbar province, an al-Qaeda stronghold, were under insurgent control.
"I believe that parts of Anbar are under the control of terrorists and insurgents," he said. "But as far as the country as a whole is concerned, it is the coalition forces, along with Iraqi forces, who are in control. But it's a difficult security situation that Iraq is going through."
Violence continued in Baghdad on Tuesday, with at least 27 Iraqis killed in attacks in the capital, police officials and witnesses said.
In the first attack, a minibus packed with explosives and parked on a street in eastern Baghdad blew up as a police patrol passed by, killing seven people, said Haitham Khalaf Ahmad, a police officer, as he stood guard at a nearby checkpoint.
Another car bomb exploded in Sadr City, a predominantly Shiite district in the capital. The bomb targeted another police patrol, killing nine people, police Maj. Qasim Nima said.
As the sun set, another bomb -- apparently planted in a motorcycle -- exploded in the Tunis district of northern Baghdad, in front of a Shiite mosque. The blast killed 11 people, al-Iraqiya television said.
Seven people were killed in Baqubah, a city 30 miles northeast of Baghdad that has been the scene of much violence between Sunni Arabs and Shiites.
Special correspondents Salih Saif Aldin, Saad al-Izzi and Bassam Sebti in Baghdad and Hassan Shammari in Baqubah contributed to this report.
