Iraq car bomb kills at least 29

A huge car bomb exploded at a Baghdad hotel housing foreigners on Wednesday night. The U.S. military say at least 29 people were killed and at least 50 others injured. Rescuers are still searching for victims in the hotel in central Baghdad where Americans, Britons, Egyptians and other foreigners were staying. It is still unclear whether the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.

Three days before the first anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein. For many there is little to celebrate and much to deplore.

Baghdad Citizen Kadhem Ibrahim said, "We were sitting at home, that's when the explosion took place.... it was against the hotel where Americans are staying."

The explosion outside the Jabal Lebanon hotel left a crater eight feet wide and 10 feet deep. The targets are believed to be foreigners staying at the hotel but the casualties were mainly Iraqis.

U.S. soldiers and Iraqi ambulances raced to the scene, and rescuers pulled bodies from the rubble of the hotel.

Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Kadhim blamed a guerrilla rocket attack for the blast, but a U.S. military spokesman said the cause was not yet known and some reports said it was possibly a car bombing.

A policeman said, "We want to check it, we need a big light, or tomorrow we can see if it is a car bomb or another, we can check it. The problem is not if it was a car bomb or another, the problem is we are losing people."

Guerrillas fighting the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq have mounted a number of car bomb and other attacks in Baghdad in recent months, and hotels have been targeted several times.