Breaking News: Blast at US Embassy in Baghdad

[spanone]

CNN just reporting. No details.

[osaMABUSh]

1. in green zone, right? must have been an inside job

[rodeodance]

Cooper said occurred "near" the US embassy

[leftchick]

2. Geez I hope they follow the instructions put up this morning...

U.S. Army soldiers set up a banner giving instructions how to react in case of an attack in the heavily guarded Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Saturday, Jan. 29, 2005. Iraqi troops intensified their deployment on Baghdad streets from the early hours of Saturday, just one day away from the national elections on Jan. 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

[Roon]

3. MSNBC reporting rockets hit embassy..two killed

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[leftchick]

4. Is Negroponte ok?

please let there be justice!

[diamond14]

22. negroponte flew out BEFORE they closed the airport.....he's done this

kind of work before...and if nothing else, negroponte KNOWS that he needs to get out of there BEFORE they close the airport.....


IMO, even Allawi is here in DC, and will broadcast a little 'casting the ballot' gig from the inside of the Iraqi embassy in DC....of course, you won't KNOW that's where it's being broadcast from...it'll be in a room set up like an Iraqi polling place, and Allawi will be surrounded by HAPPY IRAQI voters....rove will distribute the tape to all the Main Stream Media (MSM) outlets, and you'll see it again and again and again and again...all day tomorrow...

[Gabi Hayes]

10. they're showing on MSNBC TV right now

thx

CNN in commercials

''south part of US embassy hit''

SS 22 missile 15 kilos of explosive, if that's what it was; could have been a mortar

they don't know yet

2 killed, six wouded in rocket or mortar attack

then the bimbette says, "we'll be back. stay with us," with the 'us' inflected up, in the chirpiest, perkiest manner you could imagine, as if they'd just done a segment on water skiing squirrels

[RockStar]

5. BRING THEM ON

[osaMABUSh]

6. If they hit the US Embassy then we have no idea what we are

dealing with. Could there be anything more secure or protected in Iraq than the US Embassy? Obviously not.

Holy shit! It's going to be one Sunday, Bloody Sunday.

[RockStar]

8. It's ok we invited them "Bring it On" they are taking us up on the offer

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[salin]

9. Can't stand Negroponte... but would never hope for his,

or any particular person's death. Ugh.

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[underpants]

18. Hey! STOP THAT

per DU rules as well as simple decorum oh yeah and the law.

I don't like the guy but I don't wish ill will on him or anyone else, okay Bin Laden-he's an exception.

[dkofos]

20. Is there a difference???

A terrorist, is a terrorist, is a terrorist.

[Taxloss]

21. Not good to wish death.

Bad juju.

[OneTwentyoNine]

11. Bump for "Bring em on"......nt

[Stop_the_War]

13. oh fuck...

now the U.S. is going to Fallujah-ize another Iraqi city.

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. The embassy is in lockdown!

I can see the election is off to a good start, not.

[salin]

28. Is that a pic of an evacuation?

If so, that is not a good sign at all.

[DoYouEverWonder]

30. You're showing your age

That is a picture of the evacuation of the American Embassy in Saigon at the end of the Viet Nam war.

Unfortunately, I am old enough to remember it first hand.

[salin]

32. thanks for the explanation

I was too young to remember that event or picture.

[Clark2008]

15. The MSNBC story says the "insurgents" also

blasted several polling places.

I'm beginning to think the voting turnout will be next to nil.

[alexisfree]

16. soon will be another 'exit attack"

[OneTwentyoNine]

17. Hey wait,maybe its Iranians firing at the US Embassy.....

There's your Gulf of Tonkin 2005 style. Hey...don't put it past em.

[leftchick]

19. 4 Dead and 4 wounded, All Americans... link

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/01/29/iraq050129.html

BAGHDAD - A rocket has struck the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, killing four people and wounding four others, U.S. officials said Saturday.

All of the victims were Americans, according to media reports.

The embassy is located inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in the centre of the Iraqi capital.

[karlrschneider]

23. They just changed the lead paragraph:

" BAGHDAD - A rocket has struck the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four others, U.S. officials said Saturday. "

[diamond14]

24. it's always TWO killed...ONE civilian and ONE military....that makes

it easy to ship back all TWENTY bodies, because the grieving families each think that was THEIR kid...the military ONE....and it's very rare for the grieving families to figure out that there were others too....

[underpants]

26. CNN's Anderson Cooper "This is an everyday event....

this is life in Baghdad"

Oh so now it is nothing new which should be forgotten tomorrow when they try their damndest to tell us how great things are going.

He is back on talking to a news reader who reminds us "The problem is that the rockets are fired from civilian areas........"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. "We got those savages surrounded now.." G.A. Custer

"Mission Accomplised!" G.W. Bush
"Bring 'em on!" G.W. Bush

[TWiley]

27. The "unsafe zone" just went from 54% of Iraq to 60%. OOPS.

I wonder how the repukes will spin this?

At least now they will not have to blame their failure on Clinton.

[JackD76]

29. Even with all of this

Bush's approval rating continues to go up. If you look at his individual ratings (economy, environment, ect.) are going down, bush continues to become more and more popular. Well maybe election day will wake people up but probably not...

[DoYouEverWonder]

31. You're kidding?

Last I heard he was down to 44%.

BTW: Just in case you haven't heard, the election was rigged.

[Disturbed]

33. $1.8 Billion for the largest Embassy on the planet...

in Iraq. Yeah, Shrub requested this a few days ago. Of course, The Dems will all vote for it because they don't want to be seen as obstructionists.