a doll's house

             A suicide car bomber struck the U.S. intelligence headquarters here Tuesday evening, killing himself and an Iraqi child and wounding more than 50 people, including six U.S. personnel, local people and the U.S. military said Wednesday.
             It was the fifth car bomb attack in Iraq in five weeks. Iraqis were killed, including a 12-year-old boy. Six Americans were wounded, three of them with serious injuries to their abdomen caused by flying glass.
             Forty-one Iraqis were hurt, the official said, adding that the suicide bomb vehicle was packed with TNT. He said several homes in the neighborhood, which was cordoned off, were destroyed. The force of the explosion hurled pieces of the car nearly 2 km away.
             The bomb exploded Tuesday evening 350 km north of Baghdad in Kurdish-dominated territory, which has been spared much of the violence U.S. led forces have been battling to stamp out since they ousted President Saddam Hussein on April 9.
             A military spokeswoman initially said it had been a "safe house".
             A witness to the attack, Jafar Marouf, a 31-year-old teacher, was visiting a friend near the quiet residential street when he saw a white KIA four-wheel drive approach quickly and then explode with the driver inside. Marouf was slightly injured and spoke in the hospital.
             U.S. soldiers at the scene Wednesday refused to give any information. Dozens of what appeared to be Americans in civilian clothes and wearing flak jackets were coming and going from the scene of the blast in four-wheel drive vehicles.
             U.S. soldiers had flown to the site by helicopter and were guarding the area together with local Iraqi Kurdish fighters.
             The wounded included children from nearby houses and Iraqi Kurdish guards. Arbil is the largest city in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
             Staff Sgt. Shane Slaugher, U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said that the six injured Americans were Department of Defense personnel. He did not say 8if th...

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