The hotel overlooks the Tigris on its eastern bank.

It drove down a side street before it was fired on by guards and exploded, killing the suicide bomber and six Iraqis.

Security officials said that concrete barriers absorbed much of the blast, and prevented the car from destroying the hotel.

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