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Fiery Blast in Baghdad Kills 38
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"I got up and ran but could not find Eman. She was gone, nothing left of her," the woman cried. "What shall I tell my mother, or her husband, or her children?"
Violence also flared elsewhere across Iraq on Saturday. At about 5:30 p.m. in Baiji, north of Baghdad, six hooded men stepped out of their cars in the middle of the city, removed two large boxes from their trunks and then left the cartons behind, according to police 1st Lt. Musttafa Thabit.
The contents: 10 human heads.
Thabit said the victims appeared to have been either employees or contractors at the U.S. military base in Baiji. "This is the destiny of the traitors," read a note left in each box.
The U.S. military on Saturday announced the deaths of three soldiers. Two of them, assigned to Task Force Lightning, were killed when a bomb exploded while they were on patrol near Kirkuk. Another was killed after his vehicle was struck by a bomb in northern Baghdad.
In Basra, a State Department contractor was killed Friday by a rocket attack, the U.S. Embassy said. No details were released.
Special correspondents K.I. Ibrahim and Saad al-Izzi contributed to this report.
