US troops on alert after restaurant bomb
The bomb devastated the Nabil restaurant around two-and-a-half hours before midnight, scattering debris and wrecked cars across the street outside and wounding more than 20 people, including three foreign journalists with the Los Angeles Times.
In the town of Baquba, 40 miles north of the capital, around 1,000 US soldiers and 400 Iraqi police launched a major overnight raid hunting members of a militant Wahhabi Muslim cell blamed for attacks on US forces.
