NPR Comes Under Attack in Iraq

NPR is deeply grateful to the swift actions by Iraqi authorities today in Western Baghdad that prevented its American and Iraqi reporting team there from being injured in a bomb attack on their armored vehicle.

The timely receipt of information from an informant to the Iraqi authorities allowed them to warn the NPR team away from the vehicle after an unknown person or persons had placed a “sticky bomb,” an explosive device that has been used in numerous vehicle attacks in Iraq over the past year, beneath the driver’s side of the armored BMW, which had been parked in Rabiye Street while the reporting team conducted interviews in a nearby shop.