Baghdad bombers target media hotel

Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Leila Fadel describes the bombing of the Hamra Hotel in a memo to her newsroom posted today on the Star-Telegram website (reg. req.). Fadel writes:

Our hotel was apparently targeted and attacked today, according to military officials. One car bomb was meant to make a hole in our blast walls; the other was supposed to enter the complex and blow up.

Thank God the hole was not large enough to pass through and the second bomb detonated in the same spot.

At first, I thought they were targeting the Ministry of Interior after Sunni prisoners were beaten and starved in a secret jail behind our hotel. But American troops said there was no question that we were the target.