Car bombs kill 9 in Baghdad

Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-packed cars yesterday outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, killing at least nine people and wounding 23, officials said.
The blasts marked the start of a violent day in the Iraqi capital, where a another bombing and a jewelry heist left two more dead and 13 wounded.
The twin suicide car bombs rattled windows across Baghdad shortly after 8 a.m. The cars blew up just outside a security checkpoint on a heavily traveled road leading into the Green Zone from Baghdad's international airport.
Pieces of charred flesh were still scattered at the scene hours later as a tow truck hauled away a wrecked Iraqi Humvee and other bombed-out cars.