Insurgency and suicide bombings accelerating in Iraq and spreading into Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia
Balaji Reddy
Apr. 30, 2005

The second phase of the Middle East war may have started. Women in the regions are giving up their lives to kill many others through suicide bombings. The raging insurgency is spreading fast like a wild fire into nations friendly to United States. Iraq is getting uncontrollable and the “shock and awe” is getting exported into other neighboring countries. In the middle of all these, Iran is happy! They have promised to work closely with the Shiite-Kurd coalition in Iraq. That is making Sunnis even angrier. Iranian President Mohammed Khatami expressed "satisfaction" on April 29 regarding Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari's election and the makeup of the new Interim Iraqi Government. Khatami offered Iran's political and economic cooperation in expressed hopes that the neighbors will develop a mutual respect for each other.

Three car bombs exploded April 30 in Baghdad, killing four persons and wounding 16 others. The bombs targeted Iraqi and U.S. security forces. One bomb exploded near a police station in eastern Baghdad’s Zayuna district, causing all of the reported casualties. The second bomb exploded near a U.S. military convoy traveling in western Baghdad. There were no immediate reports on casualties from that blast. A car bomb also killed two civilians and wounded six when it blew up near a U.S. patrol in eastern Baghdad, police said.

A bomb explosion injured five Turkish policemen April 30 at the Aegean coast tourism resort of Kusadasi. The bomb was placed near a statue of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, police said

At least 100 Iraqis were killed and 365 injured in a series of attacks on April 29th in Baghdad's Azamiyah section. Four successive suicide car bombings aimed at Iraqi military and police targets killed 15 soldiers and five civilians, and injured 30 soldiers and 35 civilians, an Iraqi military spokesman reported. Separately, a roadside bombing near an Iraqi border patrol west of Basra killed one soldier and injured two. The U.S. military also said that one American soldier was killed and four wounded in a roadside bombing in Hawijah, 150 miles north of Baghdad. A suicide attacker blew up an ambulance near a police special forces patrol in Baqubah, the 10th bombing in Iraq on April 29. The blast killed four Iraqis and injured 20 others.

A bomb thrown from a bridge near a bus stop serving the Egyptian Museum in Cairo exploded April 30, killing one Arab and injuring two Israelis, a Russian and an Italian. In a separate attack in Cairo, two veiled women opened fire on a tourist bus but missed, Cairo Security Director Nabil el-Azabi said.

Cairo Security Director Nabil el-Azabi said April 30 that one of the veiled women that shot at a tourist bus killed the other gunwoman before shooting and wounding herself, Reuters reports. He said one of the women might be the wife of a militant who is a fugitive sought in connection with an April 7 attack against tourists in Cairo. The second attack by two veiled women against a tourist bus in Cairo was a suicide bomb attack, not an attack with firearms, as was initially reported, senior Egyptian police officials told The Associated Press on April 30. The officials also said the first bombing attack in Cairo also involved a suicide bomber, not a bomb thrown from a bridge, as was first reported.

Insurgency and suicide bombings accelerating in Iraq and spreading into Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia
Balaji Reddy
The second phase of the Middle East war may have started.
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