Video image shows crowds watch smoke billow into the sky after a car bomb ripped through an Italian military police base in the Iraqi town of Nassiriya, killing at least 18 Italians and nine Iraqis on November 12. The attack occurred as Washington attempted to speed up the process of handing over power to an Iraqi government, although U.S. officials insist this is not an exit strategy. [Reuters]

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pauses during a debate at the Senate, Italy's upper house of parliament, in Rome November 12, 2003. Berlusconi urged his country to remain united after a car bomb ripped through an Italian military police base in the Iraqi town of Nassiriya, killing at least 18 Italians and nine Iraqis. [Reuters]

People run away from the site of a bomb blast in Nassiriya, about 290kms (180 miles) south of Baghdad, November 12, 2003. [Reuters]

Video image shows crowds watching smoke billow into the sky after a car bomb ripped through an Italian military police base in the Iraqi town of Nassiriya, killing at least 18 Italians and nine Iraqis November 12. [Reuters]

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