The SMC Issues A Clarification About Al-Jadriya And Palestine Street Explosions

The Security Media Cell issued a clarification today, Thursday, regarding al-Jadriya and Palestine Street explosions in the capital, Baghdad, indicating that they did not cause human or material damage. The SMC said in a statement: 'At 01:20 am, a sound bomb exploded in front of the Caterpillar Company in al-Jadriya area, and at 01:30 am another sound bomb exploded in front of the Cambridge Institute on Palestine Street in the middle of a residential area in the capital, Baghdad, without any human or material damage.' The SMC added: "Such actions are a desperate attempt to harm Iraq's reputation and the tangible direction of reconstruction and service to citizens, as well as the status and sacrifices of our security forces." The Cell stressed that the heroic security forces, with their various titles and intelligence agencies, will pursue and reach everyone who tampers with security and societal peace and transgresses the law and public and private property. A security source had announced earlier today t hat unknown assailants targeted the Caterpillar Company in al-Jadriya and the British-American Cambridge Institute on Palestine Street, without giving further details. Source: National Iraqi News Agency