Truck bomb destroys (Iranian?) cargo ship in Iraq's Umm Qasr port

A truck bomb destroyed a cargo ship in the port of Umm Qasr, near Basra, Iraq on Saturday.


Shipping traffic was
unaffected by a truck bomb at Iraq's southern Umm Qasr
commodities port on Saturday, a maritime transport official
said.




"Shipping movements and unloading operations at Umm Qasr
port were not disrupted by the explosion," Mahdi Askar, an
official with the state-run General