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DON LEMON: Well, horror
around a soccer field filled with children. A bomb
went off in Ramadi about 70 miles west of Baghdad. At
least 18 people have been killed. And now conflicting
reports about who is to blame.
CNN's Michael Ware is in the Iraqi capital --
Michael.
MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, what we're
hearing is markedly conflicting reports about an
incident this afternoon in the western town of
Ramadi.
Ramadi is provisionally considered to be one of the
headquarters for al Qaeda in Iraq.
Now, according to Iraqi Ministry of Interior
officials, 18 children were killed when a car bomb
exploded near an open field where the children play
soccer.
However, according to a Reuters wire report, the U.S.
military is saying that one of their controlled
detonations slightly wounded 30 people and killed
nobody.
Quoting an American official, saying he does not
believe that there were two separate explosions,
apparently implying that there is much confusion over
the nature of this incident.
So all we know right now is in western Ramadi there
was an explosion of some kind by somebody. A number
of people are wounded. We don't know who, if anybody,
has been killed.
LEMON: CNN's Michael Ware in Baghdad. Thank you so
much for that report.