Blast hits Basra Voting Station

[Halliburton]

And that idiot Tweety and his band of right-wing nutcase generals said that Basra was "calm."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30300440.htm

[Oreo]

1. That's the sound of freedom!

Geraldo would probably say somebody had bad gas

[LynnTheDem]

3. lol!

:D

[aikido15]

13. Made me laugh!

:7

[Erika]

17. Bush will call himself

the greatest visionary of this century in the state of the union address. Barf bags available?

[classof56]

24. I won't be watching, but will keep barf bag handy for the re-runs

However, we are only in the 6th year of the century, so it's possible Bush could be jumping the gun if he calls himself that. I mean...he would never lie, would he? <sarcasm, of course>

Words fail me anymore when I try to express my disgust for that man.

[NYC]

2. Maybe it's calm compared to Baghdad.

Everything is relative.

[lebkuchen]

4. Has anyone mentioned how voting is going in Fallujah?

On the calmness register, how are we doing?

[quaoar]

5. There was an AP report

That said there was no sign of anyone voting in Fallujah or two other major Sunni cities.

[lebkuchen]

10. CNNI just reported 7 more hours to go, and few voters

The CNNI reporter said that the mortar round explosions in the distance were constant, that there were very few voters showing up to Tikrit, that Ramadi was the same, though US troops are out in loudspeakers trying to entire voters to come out. Low turnout in Mosel as well.

[quaoar]

6. More from AP:

The suicide attack in western Baghdad claimed the life of one policeman and wounded several other people, while mortar attacks in Khan al-Mahawil, 40 miles south of Baghdad, killed another policeman at a polling station.

Witnesses said three other people were wounded when a rocket or mortar landed near a polling station in Sadr City, the heart of Baghdad’s Shiite Muslim community.

Heavy explosions and dozens of mortar attacks broke out across Baghdad, and in several other cities, including Baquoba, Basra and Mosul.

Two mortars hit near the Ministry of Interior on the city’s eastern edge, one witness said. And there were exchanges of gunfire in the New Baghdad area in the eastern part of the city. Explosions also were heard in Baquoba northeast of Baghdad, and in the southern city of Basra, the country’s second-largest.

[Oreo]

7. well... ummm... we expected some hiccups

i could totally see them calling these attacks hiccups or speedbumps

[whirlygigspin]

8. from CNNI

"mortar rounds and bombs going off every few minutes, but no direct attacks on polling stations, so everything is going well here"

-Jane Arraf

ROFL

[Patchuli]

9. Death is a "hiccup?" Not if it was their arse!

* is Custer meeting his Last Stand...?

[cal04]

11. gunfire in Kuwaiti district

The southern city of Basra has been hit in a blast at a polling station but there has been no word on casualties.

Across the border, Kuwaiti police say they have raided a suspected militant hideout. Heavy gunfire has also been reported in the Kuwaiti district of Salmiya.


http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13292304,00.html

[mikelewis]

12. Fox news is celebrating a success... to an empty voting station OMFG!

[aikido15]

14. ROFLMOL

Only Fox would do such a thing.

[struggle4progress]

15. Seven die in poll attacks

30/01/2005 09:41 - (SA)

Baghdad - Iraqis voted on Sunday in their country's first free election in a half-century as insurgents made good on threats of violence, launching a deadly suicide bombing and mortar strikes at polling stations across Iraq.

Just hours after polls opened, at least seven people were killed, including two policemen. <snip>

Despite the heavy attacks, turnout was brisk in some Shiite Muslim and mixed Shiite-Sunni neighbourhoods, both in Baghdad and in southern cities like Basra.

But the polls were deserted in heavily Sunni cities like Fallujah, Ramadi and Samarra west and north of Baghdad. In restive Mosul in the north, American troops and Iraqi soldiers roamed the streets, using loudspeakers to announce the locations of polling sites and urge people to vote. But streets were deserted. <snip>

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1654670,00.html

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[struggle4progress]

18. Woohoo? Where did that come from?

This is a news board. I'm posting a story related to this thread.

[aikido15]

19. Really!

How rude!

[twaddler01]

20. who's cheering?

:shrug:

[thebigidea]

21. you forgot to wait for the outrage before getting outraged about it

next time get your timing right.

[Clark2008]

22. No one is cheering the deaths - they're bitching about

the propaganda.

It's not going peachy. No one with any sense thought it would.

I do wish people would stop the "ROFL," but what they're "laughing" at is the media's ineptitude - not anyone's death.

Maybe we need a new metaphor - such as SOTP (sick of the propaganda) or something.

[theorist]

23. No.... that's what freepers do.

(Search by author is great, huh, Lynn?) :)