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Robin Hood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 02:52 AM
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Breaking news: Huge bomb blast rocks Baghdad police station.
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

real fresh, don't have much info other than that.
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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 03:10 AM
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1. Link to Reuters story
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3370821

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suspected car bomb ripped through a main police station in Baghdad on Tuesday, inflicting casualties, witnesses said.

In the latest guerrilla attack, two U.S. soldiers serving with a military police unit were killed when their vehicle hit an explosive device on one of Baghdad's main supply routes, a U.S. military spokeswoman said.

In Baghdad, witnesses said a large explosion targeted the Rasafa police station shortly after 11 a.m., starting a large fire and sending a cloud of black smoke into the sky.

more
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 03:56 AM
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2. Confirmation of the inhumanity of Mankind. We know no bounds when it comes
to LOLOness
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 04:20 AM
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5. TO THOSE I SAY, - - "BRING IT ON'
Edited on Tue Sep-02-03 04:22 AM by saigon68
--G. W. BUSH ( a/k/a "Shrub" )
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 10:10 AM
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10. Quite Possibly The Most Sickening Quote From Any Politician EVER
"Bring It On!"

What was he thinking? Oh wait! Right!

HE DOESN'T THINK!!!
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Pert_UK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 04:06 AM
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3. Guardian Link
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 04:08 AM
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4. Can't be, our Imperious Leader has already declared victory
It's probably just another one of those hoax bombs set off by pranksters.
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DannyRed Donating Member (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 05:52 AM
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6. An interesting slip of the keyboard
in this article from AP via NYTimes...

http://nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-iraq-blast.html

"U.S. officials blame attacks on occupying forces and other targets on supporters of Saddam Hussein, still thought to be on the run nearly five months after he was deposed. But they have also made increasing mention of the presence of al Qaeda and other foreign fighters."

I know, it's just a poorly constructed sentence...
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hadrons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 09:33 AM
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8. "U.S. officials blame attacks on occupying forces ...."
Edited on Tue Sep-02-03 09:34 AM by hadrons
so the Iraqi resistance is occupying their own country???

Or do these U.S. officials really think they own the country (in a way they do)
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 10:04 AM
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9. The U.S. just blamed themselves
idiots.

Violence is met with violence. What's the big mystery?
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 09:18 AM
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7. Organized Iraqi Resistance against the US
This is not just SH and Baathist loyalists...
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Turbulence Donating Member (52 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 10:31 AM
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11. yes the resistance is organized alright

with fighters migrating in from various places. It seems the real combat has begun and with all the distrust in the air already has come the time wherein it will impossible to know who detonated what, where for what reasons. There are just so many flies in the ointment. Who is playing both sides against the middle. Who's in bed with who. It all will get murkier, but for those considered "authorities" on the subject. Obfiscation is the name of the game and corporation rule.
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Ernesto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 11:47 AM
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12. We'll be home in 6 months
is what they told this Marine in 1965.
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Turbulence Donating Member (52 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 01:06 PM
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13. BTW

who took responsibility for it. anyone know?
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 01:09 PM
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14. I heard it was an Iraqi who worked at the police
academy or whatever it is. He was trying to take out the Chief.



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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 02:19 PM
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15. intimidate the collaborators
textbook tactics.

hey whistle ass: find hussien NOW. kill him. seal the borders. send in 100,000 more troops.

or withdraw & destroy america's superpower rep permanently.

you're toast either way.




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