CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: A hotel where the NBC News bureau is based in Baghdad is hit by a bomb. One person is dead, an NBC soundman slightly injured. Michael Holmes is in Baghdad and filed this report.</s>MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The blast happened at about 7:00 a.m. local time, while NBC staffers, about a dozen of them, were still in their beds. The explosion took out the windows on the first and second floor; as well, of course, on the ground floor. Broken glass showering over still sleeping NBC workers. One of them, a sound engineer, he received a bad cut on his right forearm and some other minor cuts. However, the only death was that of a Somali who was working as a night porter cum manager here at the hotel. NBC had leased the entire hotel. They had not advertised their presence here. However, a live shot location on the roof certainly made it clear that there was a television organization based here. We are told by our sources that NBC had a security assessment done last week on this building and was told that they should move, that the building was not secure. The blast left a crater about two feet wide, about three inches deep, blew out windows, as I said, and also did some structural damage inside. Nothing major, however. Iraqi police tell us that the bomb was not a large one, but that it was well designed to cause maximum damage given its size. It was placed between the wall and a large generator, which made the blast effect even more dramatic. Now, this is the first time that a media organization, a Western media organization has been targeted here in Baghdad and many media organizations around the city are now reviewing their security arrangements. Michael Holmes, CNN, Baghdad.
Hotel Where NBC News Bureau Based in Baghdad Hit by Bomb