Explosive charge close to Greek Embassy in Baghdad dismantled

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: An explosive charge, planted inside a sport bag close to the Greek Embassy in Baghdad, has been dismantled by the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s Explosive Charges Experts, the Interior Ministry’s Director-General for anti-Explosives Command, Maj. General, Jihad al-Jabiri said on Saturday. “Our Directorate has dismantled a booby-trapped sports bag, filled with 10 kgs of explosive materials, close to the Greek Embassy in Jadiriya area, south of Baghdad,” Jabiri said, adding that the “explosive bag was planned to blow up by pulling the bag.” Jabiri reiterated necessity that “guards in charge of protecting officials must possess appliances that uncover explosive packages, in order to inform experts in this regard, whether such appliances are planted in the form of envelope, package, bag or tin.” Noteworthy is that the authorities in Yemen had confiscated 26 packages last Saturday, to check up their contents, one day after a U.S. announcement of uncovering two postal packages, sent from Yemen on their way to a Jewish Synagogue in the U.S. State of Chicago. SKH/SR 1