Iraq Parliament Bomber Kills 8, Including Lawmakers

In a truly remarkable example of just how bad the security situation in Baghdad is these days, an Iraqi suicide bomber managed to detonate himself (or herself) within the Iraqi Parliament building today, located at the very heart of the heavily fortified Green Zone. The attack killed at least three Iraqi lawmakers, and has wounded an additional fourteen (seven from Moqtada al-Sadr’s Shia bloc and seven from the Iraqi Accord Front – a Sunni umbrella group).

CNN has reported, in a particularly gruesome description of the attack, that “video footage of the cafeteria [where the bombing took place] showed tables and chairs destroyed and body parts among the wreckage.” The death toll is expected to rise.

Things seem to be going from bad to worse. Or, rather, from worse to ‘worser.’

A suicide bomber killed eight people in Iraq’s Parliament building, including at least three lawmakers, after penetrating the security of Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone.

More explosives were found nearby and destroyed in a controlled detonation, Cable News Network reported, citing Iraqi lawmaker Iman al-Asadi.

The bomber exploded a device in a cafeteria where members of the 275-member Council of Representatives were eating lunch, state television said. In addition to the eight deaths, 23 people were hurt, U.S. Major General William Caldwell said in a statement, without giving details. The statement was read over the phone by a spokeswoman.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq is claiming responsibility for the attack, Time magazine reported. An unidentified Interior Ministry official told Time that the bomber was a guard for one of the members of Parliament.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called today’s attack a “criminal and cowardly act,’‘ in a statement read on state television.

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