Loud Explosions Heard in Baghdad-Witnesses

[Goldmund]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=TDL4HU3K4UXVMCRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3783958

Also, explosions last night:
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=DBD23321-BBA5-4B97-B5F01B495E315681

[benburch]

1. Damn.

When is this going to end? We need to give up all financial interests in Iraq, and get the fsck out of there and PAY the international community to restore order and clean up our mess.

[Spazito]

2. Your reuters link doesn't work, here it is....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20031109/ts_nm/iraq_explosions_dc

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Several loud explosions echoed across central Baghdad Sunday night, but there were no immediate details on what caused the blasts or if there were any casualties, witnesses said.


Guerrillas have in the past week targeted the headquarters of the U.S.-led administration in the Iraqi capital, on the West side of the Tigris River, with mortars.


Immediately after the latest blasts, one helicopter took off from the U.S. headquarters and others were also soon overhead.

(only a little more on this)

[leftchick]

3. wash, rinse, repeat...

Bring Our Soldiers Home Now!!! :(

[peacetalksforall]

4. Dale Carnegie, where are you...

How to Win Friends and Influence People.

We lost the book. We lost our way.

Let's hope there are no innocents on either side.

How much does hope cost?

[Barrett808]

5. It's weird how we have to interpolate just what the hell is up with this

Like we're Soviet citizens, kept in the dark by the authorities.

I can only interpret the coyness about the these reports to mean that these explosions are happening in the Green Zone, accompanied by a not insignificant amount of damamge. If true, this means that the CPA is being shelled each night, with impunity. Reporting that would impair Bremer's "war is peace" spin. So, we hear vague stories of "explosions heard in the city" with no substantial detail.

Just imagine the news coverage if explosions were being "heard" in your city.

[fshrink]

8. Had the same weird feeling during the war

back in March, when we had to look for info with the... Russians...!!!

[hang a left]

6. The news black-out is unprecendented, even Al Jazeerza has

nothing.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Sky News: House hit by mortar in Baghdad

From Murdoch's Sky News:

BLASTS HEARD IN BAGHDAD

A house in central Baghdad has been hit by a mortar after several loud explosions were heard in the Iraqi capital.

Police said the mortar was fired from a highway. There was minor damage and no injuries were reported.

It comes after a week of repeated shelling in the Iraqi capital, as guerrillas targeted the headquarters of the US-led administration with mortars.

In the worst of the attacks, three US soldiers were injured when insurgents shelled the coalition compound on Tuesday.

Earlier, the US military detained 35 people in connection with last month's rocket attack on Baghdad's Rashid hotel which killed a US colonel and wounded 17 others.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1110655,00.html

[spinbaby]

9. The daily 1:00 explosions?

Of course, we'll never find out exactly what happened.

[yellowcanine]

10. No Vietnam-It's Soviets in Afghanistan!

Bushbots keep saying Iraq is not Vietnam. They are right. It is worse than Vietnam. It is Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Helicopters getting shot down, military positions taking mortar fire, land mines, homemade bombs blowing up humvees. And all the while the administration hides from public view the dead and maimed - just like the Soviets did in their dirty little war. To find out what is going on reporters have to talk to soldiers and families of soldiers. This is the most dishonest war administration in U.S. history. What's more, Bush appears to be getting away with it. Nearly half of the American people still support how the administration is handling the war. That could change but it would be down to 25% by now if the media would do their job and tell what is really going on.

[loudnclear]

11. I Thinks this might be a link here

Saudi bombs kill expats

Monday 10 November 2003, 1:27 Makka Time, 22:27 GMT

More than 100 were injured including this unknown survivor
Related:
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Seventeen people including five children have been confirmed dead after a massive double car bomb devastated a Riyadh compound of Arab expatriates on Sunday.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6A70C791-B34B-4910-A517-7AC73F4680B2.htm

[hang a left]

12. The explosions the thread bearer was referring to were in

Bagdad. But thanks for the try, we are desperate for information