Today's car bombing in Najaf

My friend "Jassim" saw the devestation of the car bombing in Najaf today. Apparently, the bomber was en route to the Imam Ali shrine, but he was stopped by police and detonated early. CBC News has the AP story here. USA Today has a more updated AP story here.

I'm going to include our conversation about this. There is a link to a picture that he took at the end of the post.

Jassim: today there was a bombing in Najaf

Karen: yes? by whom?

Jassim: a suicider

Jassim: in a car

Karen: *nods* were many people hurt?

Jassim: about 11 killed and 35 injured

Jassim: I went there at once with the red crescent team

Jassim: took few photos too

Karen: *hugs* did you know any of them?

Jassim: no

Karen: how many people were there with the Red Crescent?

Jassim: we were 6 workers

Karen: that's not very many

Jassim: yes we have a small team due to lack in funding and organizing

Jassim: it is useless any way to go there because we always find that people carry all victims before we arrive

Karen: I see

Karen: does anyone know the bomber's motivation?

Jassim: I saw the suecider's body

Jassim: yes it is so obvious

Jassim: he is from extream sunnies

Karen: I see

Jassim: he was trying to enter the old city to reach the holly shrine and bomb him self there

Jassim: but the police check point suspected him and stopped him to check the car but he bombed him self in their faces

Jassim: only one survived

Karen: I see

Jassim: I saw blood and meat peices all arround the area

Here is a picture of what was left of the suicide bomber.