Aftermath

Today there was a bomb explosion in a cafe/restaurant in Al-Suleikh in Eastern Baghdad. AP are saying that the coffee shop was frequented by police. I rather doubt that. In that particular part of Baghdad the police are far from popular. As this from a resident helping to search for bodies in the wreckage shows: "Labourers gather here and there is a coffee shop and a restaurant. At around 10 a.m. the blast happened and we ran outside to see. We collected pieces of flesh. There were no policemen, only innocent people sitting in the coffee shop" The bomb appears to have been targetted at a passing patrol. The woman in the photo is looking for her son who was in the cafe at the time. I haven't been able to find out if she found him or whether he was alive or dead. markfromireland