Mar,+Derek+16

On April 4, 2010 there was a report made about Baghdad. It was reported that there were three suicide car bombers and their bombs had activated killing about 41 people and had wounded more than 200 people. The blasts were located near the Iranian, Egyptian, and German embassies and their detonation were within minutes of each other. There was going to be a 4th suicide bomber but he was shot and killed by security before he could activate another bomb by the former Germany embassy. Before that tragic event of suicide bombings, there was a mortar attack, four mortar rounds were fired on Saturday night, and two more on Sunday morning. The chain of blasts caused by each bombing led to other cars blowing up and hiting other things possible causing them to blow up and injuring people. Lots of staff members working for each embassy were seriously injured or wounded or possibly even killed because of each bombing. People were very frustrated that when they walking outside they do not feel safe and feel that sometimes that they might not even return back. My justification for this statement is what Jassim Mohammed, a survivor, said "This is enough. We are tired of explosions, we do not feel safe."
 * Iraq Suicide Bombers target the city of Baghdad**

Sources: BBC:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8602478.stm MSNBC(Reuters):http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33016585/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Some similarities that I noticed were that they had similar titles. Also I noticed that they had similar statistics about the number of people died and the number of people wounded. They also talked about how the explosion led to other things that hurt others or caused others to die. Some differences I noticed was that the BBC article was a little more specific to where the locations of the bombings. They said more than the Iranian, Egyptian, and German embassies. Also the BBC article talked about the possible 4th bombing which the Reuters article did not talk about at all. They both had completely different quotes and the Reuters article had more quotes and said who actually said each quote.

My opinion on this event is that its horrible that these three bombings happened and injured and killed so many people in the city of Baghdad. It was very fortunate that not very many people were killed but its very sad to see so many are wounded by the bombing. Also it was sad to see there were past attacks not with bombings but with the mortars and hopefully not many were injured. I hope the people who were wounded get better and be able to live again.