Blast near TV office in Baghdad

[DoYouEverWonder]

October 30, 2004

An explosion in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has injured at least six employees of the Al-Arabiya television station.

The blast caused severe damage to al-Arabiya's offices in the western Mansour district, the station said.

Most of the wounded were technicians and drivers and had been taken to hospital, a spokesman said.

Other witnesses in the area reported a powerful blast that shattered windows and rocked buildings.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3967843.stm

[snippy]

1. HMX, RDX or PETN? n/t

[leftchick]

2. AFP Link....3 DEAD....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041030/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_baghdad_blast&cid=1514&ncid=1480


BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least three people were killed and several wounded when a car bomb ripped through the streets outside Al-Arabiya television's offices in Baghdad, a US military officer at the scene said.

Captain David Mineschek said three people had been killed and many more wounded when the car bomb exploded in the central Mansour neighbourhood.


Meanwhile, the Dubai-based satellite station, said around seven of its staffers were wounded, and police spokesman Sami al-Saadun told Al-Arabiya the explosion injured 16 passers-by.


The blast erupted in front of a car park just across from the channel's offices. It was not clear if Al-Arabiya was targeted, a correspondent of the channel said.


....Another Fucking Remarkable Success

[maddezmom]

3. AP: killing 7, 19 injured

On Saturday, a car bomb exploded outside the offices of the Al-Arabiya television station in central Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding 19, police said. The blast went off near the Dubai-based network's building in the western Mansour neighborhood of the capital, Police Brig. Gen. Sami al-Saadoun said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041030/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480

[maddezmom]

4. kick

for the utter chaos that * has created.

[sr_pacifica]

5. I have to say I am very suspicious of this one

An insurgent group claimed responsibility, but the accuracy of that claim is in doubt.

Since when has Al-Arabiya been the enemy of the Iraqi people? Rather it has been the target of the U.S. Rumsfeld several months back attacked Al-Arabiya for being anti-coalition.