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NATO chief condemns 'reprehensible' Baghdad bombings
Brussels (AFP) Oct 25, 2009 The head of the NATO military alliance condemned as "reprehensible" Sunday two suicide bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital which killed 99 people and wounded more than 700. "On behalf of NATO, I strongly condemn the bombing that occurred today in Baghdad, which caused huge loss of innocent life," NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a statement. "This was a reprehensible act of violence, for which there can be no justification. I express my condolences to the Iraqi government and people, and wish the injured a speedy recovery," he said. One of the attackers exploded a truck bomb at a busy intersection near the justice and municipalities ministries, while the other detonated a car bomb opposite the nearby Baghdad provincial government offices. It was Iraq's bloodiest day in more than two years. The government blamed the strikes on Al-Qaeda and supporters of ex-dictator Saddam Hussein's banned Baath Party. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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