is this old news?

[Sig Whore]

A suicide bomber has blown up his car outside an army recruiting centre in central Baghdad killing about 47 people and injuring 50.
It was the second deadly suicide attack in two days on Iraqis working with the US-led coalition, following a truck bombing against a police station south of Baghdad that killed 53 people and wounded scores, including would-be Iraqi recruits applying for jobs.

About 300 Iraqis were outside the recruiting station, some lined up to join the military and others waiting to depart for a training camp in Jordan, when the car blew up.

Iraq's deputy interior minister, Ahmed Ibrahim, said 47 people were killed and 50 injured.

The blast happened at about 7.25am less than a mile from the green zone, the high-security area where US administrators are based, a coalition spokesman said.

US troops immediately sealed off the area.

Colonel Ralph Baker of the 1st Armoured Division said a man driving a white 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra detonated about 300 to 500lbs of explosives.

Ghasan Sameer, 32, an officer in the new

Officials at Yarmouk said they had received eight wounded and that others were taken elsewhere. The total number of wounded was not known, the coalition spokesman said.

Colonel Baker said there was no immediate indication who was behind the attack but said it resembled "the operating technique" of al-Qaida or Ansar al-Islam.

It was at least the ninth vehicle bombing in Iraq this year and followed warnings from occupation officials that insurgents would step up attacks against Iraqis who work with the coalition, especially ahead of the planned June 30 transfer of sovereignty to a provisional Iraqi government.

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[KraZ]

I've heard it this morning so I guess it's pretty old, SigWhore...