4-6 explosions in Baghdad

[Renew Deal]

from the direction of Coalition compound. Faux news, AP, CNN reporting.

Smoke rising.

[Beetwasher]

1. Right on Schedule!

n/t

[benburch]

2. M*A*S*H reference...

5 O'clock Charlie...

[htuttle]

4. I just noticed...

My watch is 5 minutes slow.

[IndianaGreen]

3. This is why Paul Bremer was called home

The Presidential Palace, where the CPA is headquartered, is on fire. CNN just showed pictures of the smoke rising. No details.

[Beetwasher]

5. Yup, they've been ranging for the past week or so

and becoming more accurate. HQ knew it and Bremer knew some direct hits were coming...

[loudnclear]

6. Chickenhawks always scatter when danger is at hand

Think Cheney hides more than Bush.

[TacticalPeek]

43. All you see is tail feathers.

:evilgrin:

[DuctapeFatwa]

8. Sounds like you are trying to incite anti-coverbanism

These are routine explosions, and a routine fire.

Inciting anti-coverbanism in this way is designed only to cause anguish to those Americans who do not realize that Potentate Bremer is safely on his way to a hastily-called conference in Washington, where he will wait out some routine mopping-up aerial campaigns that will help reduce the population and facilitate securing the natural resources that help keep America running!

[IndianaGreen]

9. I wonder why the 24/7 networks are only showing an occasional glimpse

of the live TV shots they are being fed from Baghdad.

[DuctapeFatwa]

18. Probably because they don't want to be murdered or disappeared

Let's look on the bright side.

In America, the press has the freedom to praise the bush regime, even right in the middle of Iraq!

That would never have been allowed under Saddam's brutal regime!

[Cocoa]

15. Bremer's suits are so nice

it would be a shame if anything happened to them, or to his nice haircut.

[Judi Lynn]

27. I know! I've admired his fastideousness, too.

An opportunist can NEVER look too dressy.

[CaptainClark23]

44. In that picture...

Does he have his fingers crossed?!?!

for that matter, try and do what he's doing with YOUR hand...go ahead, try it.

some weird double-jointed masonic handshake voodoo weirdness for certain.

these guys give me the creeps.

[EFF BrandyWine]

49. I must be freaky!

I had no difficulty doing "that" with my hand!

[CaptainClark23]

51. That proves it, you're one of THEM!

or maybe I need to take a day off..whaddya think?

[IndianaGreen]

30. I think he uses Kerry's tailor

:evilgrin:

[Cocoa]

47. one thing for sure

it's not Nader's tailor. :-)

[BlackFrancis]

50. he pisses me off..

I've always worn business suits and combat boots, now that little quisling bastard has stolen my uniform :(

[Brush_Hill]

24. Naturally Bremer Runs

What a chicken-ass. They all are chicken f**ks. Scary, as soon as I saw the Drudge Report this morning and it stated that Viceroy Bremer had to depart Baghdad for Washington, I knew something was coming. Even scarier, there was a report on DU yesterday of hundereds of planes massing somewhere. There were flying over Scotland every 15 minutes. Something like 200 plus. Maybe another assault on Baghdad? Damacus (as was suggested). Who knows. This whole thing is really messed up. I fear Bush's desire for Armageddon is being realized.

[DoYouEverWonder]

52. The air bombing has already begun according to Sanchez

"The most important message is that we're going to get pretty tough," said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, whose forces have unleashed air bombing for the first time since Bush declared major combat over on May 1.

"That's what's necessary to defeat this enemy and we're definitely not shy about doing that," Sanchez told a news briefing.

Washington blames die-hard supporters of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and foreign guerrillas for the attacks.

"Not a single tool that we have available would be spared if necessary to defeat that enemy," Sanchez said. "Although the coalition can be benevolent, this is still the same lethal formation that removed the former oppressive regime."


Reuters

[Voltaire99]

40. I just hope he was able to rescue his prize collection...

...of CEO-Liberator autographs first!

[IndianaGreen]

7. CNN reported 8 explosions (mortars again?)

This is what Reuters is reporting:

At Least Three Blasts Heard in Baghdad-Witnesses
Tue November 11, 2003 01:35 PM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least three explosions echoed across the Iraqi capital Baghdad Tuesday night, although the location of the blasts was not immediately clear, Reuters witnesses said.
The explosions, which sounded like mortar fire, follow a trend of mortar attacks on the U.S.-led administration's sprawling headquarters in central Baghdad in the past 10 days.

Those recent attacks have wounded several people but not killed anyone or caused much damage.

A U.S. army spokesman said he had no concrete details.

REUTERS

[benburch]

14. If you are close enough...

If you are close enough to the mortar, four rounds sound like eight explosions because you hear the charge that launches the projectile.

[IndianaGreen]

16. That's an excellent point

I believe the Palestine Hotel is just across the river from CPA Hqs, I better check a map.

[spinbaby]

10. I like this bit

AP Photo



"Iraqi police began setting up checkpoints in the center of the city in an effort to apprehend those responsible. "

Heck, the Iraqi police are probably waving 'em through.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20031111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_blasts

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

11. News links:

Series of Strong Blasts Heard in Baghdad
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A series of strong explosions were heard in central Baghdad after sundown Tuesday, and smoke could be seen rising from the U.S. headquarters compound known as the "green zone."

Up to eight detonations occurred after 9:30 p.m. Following one of them, white smoke could be seen rising from the zone, a one-square-mile area of downtown Baghdad where the main buildings of the U.S.-led coalition are located.
<snip>


ABC Link on same story: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031111_1017.html

AP Link: http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V9713.AP-Iraq-Blasts.html;COXnetJSessionID=1xyYKB5cBr2GdxyZyrgyQn8SF5az27jwcpwnrB9pAbZR12rR6lmE!-1815746991?urac=n&urvf=10685773684510.800331727301906

[IndianaGreen]

13. "The U.S. command said it was investigating..."

The U.S. command said it was investigating but had no word on the location.

They are too busy putting the fires out!

[leftchick]

19. Aljazeera: Several Blasts hit Main US Compound....

no more information yet, it is in the breaking news at their site.
Chickeshit bremer sure got his ass out in time....stinking coward

[0007]

35. The word is that he was called to Washington, fishy, 'eh?

[54anickel]

12. Bremers Physic on top of physco?

[KoKo]

17. There was that big explosion yesterday, but never heard anymore about it..

are they just lobbing motars into the Palace Grounds....and not hitting anything? Yesterday's story seemed to disappear yet the reporter for CNN was on air when it happened and it could be heard by everyone.

[ewagner]

21. I think the one you're referring to

was the reporter on MSGOP....

It was identified as a generator exploding and never heard anything more about it.

btw.....laughed my ass off when the reporter said that almost everything in that part of the city is run on private generators....so much for the electrical grid being back up and running....

[Roon]

20. Heard on MSNBC..

That it's very SLOW to get information because it has to up through the chain of command then back down to the reporters. Gawd, that is such crap!!

[IndianaGreen]

23. Can they not just report what they see and hear?

Ot do they have to check with Mommy first?

[Fleshdancer]

31. Chain of information

"...it's very SLOW to get information because it has to up through the chain of command then back down to the reporters."

hmmm. Seems like the US media is having the same issue lately.

[spinbaby]

22. There's a sort of dark humor in this

Every day at the same time Americans get bombs lobbed at them while they pretend nothing is happening.

[CaptainClark23]

25. nothing to [BOOM!] see here....

movealong

[Voltaire99]

41. Our age cries out for a Stanley Kubrick/Terry Southern

With the Strangeloves in power, we desperately need pop culture to expose their shameless world-flattening idiocy.

[Papa]

45. You are oooooh so right

There is a wingnut at my work that I've been "working" on and the biggest impact anything has had on him was some band called KMFD (i think) and they have an album or a song out that bashes BUSH.

Many people take their cue(s) from what's out there in the media and pop culture. We need more artists to speak up, or write about the disaster our country is in to wake people up.

[IndianaGreen]

26. CNN Update 2:10 PM EST

Explosions rock Baghdad
Iraqi politician killed in confrontation with U.S. soldiers
Tuesday, November 11, 2003 Posted: 2:10 PM EST (1910 GMT)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 10 explosions were heard Tuesday night in Baghdad, and smoke was rising from within the coalition's heavily secured Green Zone, which includes most of the Coalition Provisional Authority's activities.

A spokesman for the authority said officials are investigating.

A CNN security adviser at a Baghdad hotel saw two impacts in the zone and smoke rise from them.

A CNN crew in the area reports normal traffic and said bridges over the Tigris River near the Green Zone are open.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/11/sprj.irq.main/index.html

[peterh]

28. 3-4 Mortars Land Inside US Baghdad Headquarters -Fox News

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A U.S. military source said three to four mortars landed
inside the U.S. headquarters compound in Baghdad Tuesday night, but there was no
immediate word on any casualties, Fox News reported.
No return fire was heard, Fox News said, possibly indicating U.S. troops
weren't able to immediately pinpoint the location of the incoming mortar rounds.
The headquarters compound has been a frequent target of mortar fire recently.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

[TolstoyAndy]

48. When has this ever stopped them before?

"No return fire was heard, Fox News said, possibly indicating U.S. troops weren't able to immediately pinpoint the location of the incoming mortar rounds"

Don't they usually just spin around shooting in all directions when they can' figure out where it's coming from?

Of course, such tactics are not the fault of the soldiers, because they shouldn't even be there.

Oh, the bloody, bloody hands of BushCo.

[BeHereNow]

29. Bremer to Washington, Planes In Scotland...hmmm?

Could it be, just maybe, that they are planning
something really nasty here?
Like maybe, they will let some of our troops
get decimated, and use it as an excuse to
flatten Iraq?
Let's not forget that MOAB they moved over there
last spring.
Let's not forget that they create disasters to
get the Amurikkans pissed off at the terr'ists
so that they can retaliate with the 'murikans permission.
This aint looking good...

[Fleshdancer]

32. Scary thought.

Was it Trent Lott who made the comment recently that we should just flatten Iraq? Or was it some other dip shit republican??? The comment was made not too long ago, I wish I could remember who said it.

[Roon]

33. It was Lott n/t

[Papa]

46. "mow the whole place down and see what happens"

were his words as I remember them.

[Neutrino]

39. The whole world just sits there--chewing on their collective

cud--as they have since the beginning of this unwarranted attack. Perhaps they have considered the fact that no country in History has
unilaterally attacked a sovereign nation--and won. No resistence
of such an attack has ever lost. ever.

[54anickel]

34. MSNBC stating how inaccurate mortars are reminds

me of how they downplayed the usefulness of scuds in poppies first war. They may be inaccurate, but you sure don't want to be nearby when they hit, as Bremer has shown.

[ewagner]

36. No confirmations from the army

"expert" says it's just a nusiance.

everything's fine

stay tuned to HARdBALL so we can tell you how wonderful everything else is in Iraq....and don't forget Vote Republican

[54anickel]

37. mosquitos are a "nusiance" where I come from, think this guy

needs to expand his vocabulary some.

[Cocoa]

38. we can count on Dr. Bob

he'll interview in his fluent Arabic some Iraqis that look like they're about to kill him, and then cheerfully turn to us and tell us how happy they are.

[sal]

42. too funny, LOL

They think his hair is purdy.