Large Blast Hits Baghdad (Tuesday)

[spinbaby]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A huge explosion rocked central Baghdad late Tuesday.
 
There was no immediate explanation for the blast, and the U.S. military had no immediate comment.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/iraq_explosion

[CO Liberal]

1. Looks Like They Found Some of the Missing Explosives

I hope casualties are low...

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

8. I guess~.

How many more tons does that leave?

[Cocoa]

2. maybe that's where some of the Qaqaa went

[tridim]

4. Yep, every bombing from here on out is Bush's fault

as far as I'm concerned.

[AIJ Alom]

3. yup. sounds like high explosives to me !

[nolabels]

5. I wonder where they got the explosives

<sarcasm off>

A lot of them GI's comming back from Iraq with blown out ear drums, and body parts missing can thank bushco (that's is if they don't come back home in boxes)



Corporate Media Ignores US Hypocrisy on War Crimes
By Peter Phillips

During the first week of December 03, US corporate media reported that American forensic teams are working to document some 41 mass graves in Iraq to support future war crime tribunals in that country. Broadly covered in the media, as well, was the conviction of General Stanislav Galic by a UN tribunal for war crimes committed by Bosnian Serb troops under his command during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992-94.

These stories show how corporate media likes to give the impression that the US government is working diligently to root out evil doers around the world and to build democracy and freedom. This theme is part of a core ideological message in support of our recent wars on Panama, Serbia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Governmental spin transmitted by a willing US media establishes simplistic mythologies of good vs. evil often leaving out historical context, special transnational corporate interests, and prior strategic relationships with the dreaded evil ones.

The hypocrisy of US policy and corporate media complicity is evident in the coverage of Donald Rumsfeld's stop over in Mazar-e Sharif Afghanistan December 4 to meet with regional warlord and mass killer General Abdul Rashid Dostum and his rival General Ustad Atta Mohammed. Rumsfeld was there to finalize a deal with the warlords to begin the decommissioning of their military forces in exchange for millions of dollars in international aid and increased power in the central Afghan government.

Few people in the US know that General Abdul Rashid Dostum fought alongside the Russians in the 1980s, commanding a 20,000-man army. He switched sides in 1992 and joined the Mujahidin when they took power in Kabul. For over a decade, Dostum was a regional warlord in charge of six northern provinces, which he ran like a private fiefdom, making millions, by collecting taxes on regional trade and international drug sales. Forced into exile in Turkey by the Taliban in 1998, he came back into power as a military proxy of the US during the invasion of Afghanistan.
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http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/corporatemedia.html

[UpInArms]

6. maybe some quick on its toes website

needs to calculate the number of bombings that have been brought to us courtesy of this maladministration and its complicity in the use of 380 tons of high explosive material that it gave to the insurgents.

:argh:

[Randi_Listener]

7. Here's some spare C-4.

Now BRING 'EM ON!!

[Skittles]

9. Maybe DU should have a forum for "blasts in Baghdad"

:(

[chiffon]

10. "no immediate explanation for the blast"

go figure!

[bahrbearian]

13. You know no reporters or Army Personal are going to check it out.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. It always seemed improbable that these blasts were done

with old artillery shells like they claimed. After all this time I should have known better.

400 tons means a lot of explosions.

Imagine the frantic fruitless search going on in Iraq right now while they look for this stuff all the while covering their stupid asses?

[Zayin]

12. Sounds like a good excuse for a vacation in Crawford

[saigon68]

14. just the usual nightly mortaring

Nothing to see here

Move along.

[hyphenate]

15. I wonder how many serial numbers

from the missing C4 at al-caca were on the explosives?</sarcasm>

(I doubt if there were any Seral #s, but I needed to be sarcastic about the fire power the enemy now possesses)