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No Place is Safe; Life in Baghdad: Some suicide bombings don't even get headlines anymore.

Newsweek International

| October 04, 2004 | Nordland, Rod; Contreras, Joseph; Conant, Eve; Nadeau, Barbie; Flynn, Emily; Pape, Eric | COPYRIGHT 2004 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Rod Nordland (With Joseph Contreras in Baghdad, Eve Conant in Washington, Barbie Nadeau in Rome, Emily Flynn in London and Eric Pape in Paris)

Bricks and plaster blew inward from the wall, as the windows all shattered and I fell to the floor--whether from the shock wave, or just fright, it wasn't clear. The blast was so loud it sounded as if the building couldn't possibly stand, but it did. Toaster-size chunks of twisted metal fell in the yard and banged off the roof; later they'd be identified as pieces of a U.S. Army Humvee, blown up by a suicide car-bomb a full block away. No one was hurt in that building, which had been heavily blast-protected. But ...

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