"Did he have anything to do with the car bombing?"
He had the time to set up the car bombing, but to what purpose?
Car bombings and other violence now kill an average of 100 people a day.
All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.
He said 36 car bombings struck the capital over the past four weeks, down from 56.
The car bombing was not the only attack on Israelis today.
A day before that a 51 year old man appeared in the same court charged with the car bombing.
Israeli media, though, gave prominent play to the car bombing.
The book chronicles his response to the 1988 car bombing.
As it turned out, nobody was ever convicted of the car bombings.