A suicide bomber in a taxi killed four American soldiers in central Iraq, while American airstrikes again pounded Baghdad and blasted Republican Guard units south of the Iraqi capital, killing scores of Iraqi troops.
A tall, concrete blast wall stands guard in front of an office building.
One blast struck a guard post at the barracks, spraying shards of green glass around the entrance.
Mike Alstott scored on a powerful 2-yard blast aided by guard Cosey Coleman, who created a clear running lane.
Do you blast the enemy guard with a bullet to the face, sweet-talk him, sneak around the back or maybe hack into the security computers?
Rather, it will be a spur to rethink again how reporters work, to adapt to the changing threats, to ensure that all reasonable precautions are taken before heading out into the war zone — which is to say, in the prevailing conditions, beyond the world of armed guards, blast walls, checkpoints, sandbags and razor wire that have become de rigueur for all news bureaus in Baghdad.
The victims from Saturday's blast included 18 national guard troops and 15 civilians; six remained unidentified.
Major Ahmed Nur, a police officer, told Reuters that a car bomb rammed the entrance to the hotel and was followed by a second blast, which a security guard said was another vehicle bomb.
She was too far away to see the attack on the armored car and the blasts that killed one guard and left another in a pool of blood as the shooters grabbed $1.6 million from the back of the truck.
There were no guards or blast walls, no sirens in the distance, none of the dull chop of Blackhawks that now fills Baghdad nights.
