NPR News Team Escapes Assassination Attempt in Baghdad

The focus may have been elsewhere this weekend but things are still dangerous for reporters in Iraq. NPR reports that their team in Baghdad narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday after a hidden “sticky” bomb exploded underneath their parked, armored BMW. According to NPR the team was warned ahead of time:

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.

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