星期一，三名自杀式炸弹杀手袭击了伊拉克首都巴格达的酒店，导致至少36人死亡，71人受伤。伊拉克官员说，袭击者驾驶装满炸药的汽车在巴格达喜来登、巴比伦和爱尔哈姆拉酒店外接连引爆炸弹。
自8月以来在巴格达发生了多起连环炸弹袭击，炸死数百人。伊拉克当局担心，叛乱分子可能会高调发动袭击，破坏定于3月7日举行的全国议会选举。在华盛顿，美国国务卿希拉里.克林顿说，伊拉克举行选举以及其它向正常、有效民主迈进的举动“对恐怖分子来说是最糟糕的结果”。
Three suicide bombers attacked hotels in Baghdad Monday, killing at least 36 people in the Iraqi capital and wounding 71 others. Iraqi officials say the attackers drove cars packed with explosives and set off their bombs in quick succession outside Baghdad’s Ishtar Sheraton, Babylon and al-Hamra hotels.
Baghdad has been hit by several coordinated bomb attacks since August that have killed hundreds of people, and authorities have expressed concern about possible high-profile attacks to disrupt national parliamentary elections scheduled for March 7. In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the elections and other moves toward normal, functioning democracy in Iraq are the “worst possible outcome for terrorists.”