Powerful Blast Shakes US Military Base in Kirkuk

[Barrett808]

Kirkuk. A powerful blast has shaken an US military base located nearby the airport in northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk, Iraqi news agency INA reported. There has been no further information on the incident.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=72843&ch=0&datte=2005-09-22

[tainowarrior]

1. oh boy..

another suicide bomber inside a base?

[Waya]

2. Hmmm....them Brits at it again?

[Junkdrawer]

3. Program...Get your programs here...Can't tell insurgents from black ops...

without a program...

[bahrbearian]

8. LOL N/T

[gasperc]

4. this is bad

and I haven't even read the article yet.

does any one know where that hurricane George cartoon went. with the giant debt hurricane that was hilarious

[skooooo]

5. Not much information...

The headline constitutes most of the "article."

[sabra]

6. INA: Powerful Blast Shakes US Military Base in Kirkuk

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=72843&ch=0&datte=2005-09-22

INA: Powerful Blast Shakes US Military Base in Kirkuk

Kirkuk. A powerful blast has shaken an US military base located nearby the airport in northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk, Iraqi news agency INA reported. There has been no further information on the incident.

[goclark]

7. kick

[cliss]

9. Yup. Double-kick

This is important stuff, hurricane or no.

[rooboy]

10. Kick. n/t

[cantstandbush]

11. It must be pretty bad. Can't access any of the Arab media links

US must have blocked them out.

[Gloria]

12. But it's SAFE in Kurdistan......not....

eom

[HuffleClaw]

13. wow, this story just VANISHED

so... ...WHY did it vanish ?

[onenote]

14. why did it vanish? don' know. Did it actually happen?

All I've seen is the one website reference to a report by the "Iraqi News Agency, INA". I've googled around and can't find anything to suggest that INA is a credible or even real source. Maybe someone else can find something, but for the moment, I'm skeptical.

onenote

[DLnyc]

15. Maybe it didn't happen YET.

They'll probably release the story again, after it actually has happened.

[MADem]

17. I saw it, just a short blurb, a few moments ago nt

[MADem]

16. In "friendly" Kurdville?????

Uh, oh....

The Shi'as in the south are not happy, and the Sunnis in the triangle have never been happy...

Can we say CRACK??? As in the nation of Iraq splitting in three????

EDIT TO ADD: anything to do with this????? http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=119200&cat=Asia

Meanwhile in Kirkuk, saboteurs set ablaze a knot of pipelines north of the city, sending up huge plumes of fiery smoke, oil company sources said Thursday.

"The fire broke out in a juncture that links oil pipelines carrying crude from the wet oil treatment oilfields near Dibis region north of Kirkuk into the city oilfields," said Capt. Azad Omar of the Oil Protection Establishment Force.

Omar said the explosion caused by an improvised explosive device detonated by unknown insurgents was followed by fire in the valves complex.

He did not say if this would affect exports from the oilfields already hit by a series of bombings to pipelines...........