Another cowardly attack in Iraq. this time they targeted the Polish Ambassador, who was injured but will recover. Here’s the money quote from a member of the Polish delegation: "What happened in Baghdad today will change nothing. "Poles don't like to be pushed to do something and we don't like to be threatened ... I don't think it will change the attitude of Polish society toward the Iraq war." Good on the Poles, they know what is means to live under totalitarian regimes. FROMALJAZEERA.NET:
Iraq blast wounds Polish ambassador
Poland's ambassador to Iraq has been wounded in an apparent assassination attempt after a roadside bomb exploded in central Baghdad, killing two people, Iraqi and Polish officials have said.One bystander and one of the ambassador's bodyguards died in the blast, while 14 people were wounded, including ambassador Edward Pietrzyk, officials said.
Sources told Al Jazeera three diplomatic cars were struck by the blasts on Wednesday shortly after leaving the embassy compound in al-Arasat. "The ambassador was injured, but was able to leave the scene," Robert Szaniawski, a Polish foreign ministry spokesman, said from Warsaw, Poland's capital
"Three cars in the Polish convoy were destroyed in the attack," he said. 'Assassination attempt' Officials described the attack as an assassination attempt. Bartosz Weglarczyk, the deputy foreign editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, told Al Jazeera that the attack was "well planned".
"It was just two or three blocks away from the Polish embassy in Baghdad," he said.
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