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| Another Baghdad car bomb causes heavy casualties |
| 2004-06-14 |
| via Xinhuanet - With Pictures BAGHDAD, June 14 -- At least six people were killed and many others wounded in a Monday morning bombing in central Baghdad, Iraqi police said. They said they still did not have the exact number of casualties due to the chaos at the scene. However, an Iraqi civil defense official put the death toll at 12 while local hospitals reported that they had received more than 20 injured. The bombing occurred after 8:00 a.m. local time at a heavily trafficked commercial street near the Tahrir Square (Liberation Square) when three civilian sport utility vehicles (SUVs) passed by. All the three cars were damaged and the front of a two-story building was torn off. Tahrir Square is at the eastern end of the Jumhuria Bridge across the Tigris River. Angry Iraqis shouted slogans against Americans and setting fire to an American flag. The latest incident followed a car bomb explosion near a US-led coalition base in Baghdad on Sunday, which killed 12 Iraqis and injured 13 others. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #11 Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy per http://www.greatestjeneration.com/. She kept it as a slogan for the new Iraqi flag. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5217 2004-06-14 3:47:18 PM |
| #10 my vote is for that "whiskey, sexy (something)" sign the iraqi held as our slogan. Note how I only remembered two of those for some reason... |
| Posted by: flash91 2004-06-14 3:04:11 PM |
| #9 Again and again we are reminded that many people of Iraq revel in the kind of bloodbaths Western cultures discarded decades ago. And yet our wonderful men and women remain there, risking their lives on bridges, in doorways, at the gates of hell, to help DIMINISH suffering. Those Iraqis have no idea what kind of suffering (theirs, mostly) would be in the offing if we got mad enough. I'm thinking in terms of a napalm canister dropped right into the middle of those anti-American demonstrations that appear right after foreigners are killed. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-14 2:17:27 PM |
| #8 Wait a second... I remember an oldie. Two! Four! Six! Eight! Mr. Spectre please align on the powerplant at 10 o'clock. 10! 12! 14! 16! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-14 12:47:16 PM |
| #7 How come our side has no good slogans? I fear we are in the middle of a slogan gap. We need to place blame... can't anyone here chant? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-14 12:43:49 PM |
| #6 "Angry Iraqis shouted slogans against Americans and setting fire to an American flag." TomAnon says: "Notice how the crowd just happened to have an American Flag to burn for the cameras?" Yeah. Funny that. But didn't you know that ALL Iraqis carry American flags in their back pockets? It's a current fad over there--because they love us so much. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-06-14 11:00:01 AM |
| #5 Mitch, Jules,... good point! |
| Posted by: B 2004-06-14 10:22:29 AM |
| #4 The bloodlust of the witnesses surely rivals that of Caligula. Again and again we are reminded that many people of Iraq revel in the kind of bloodbaths Western cultures discarded decades ago. And yet our wonderful men and women remain there, risking their lives on bridges, in doorways, at the gates of hell, to help DIMINISH suffering. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-06-14 10:04:12 AM |
| #3 I think you are right their Mitch. Notice how the crowd just happened to have an American Flag to burn for the cameras? |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2004-06-14 10:00:38 AM |
| #2 It occurs to me that it might be useful to start arresting the "protesters" en mass that pop up at these bombing sites. I'm almost positive that some of the bombers' associates are sparking these "protests". But for the love of god, ease off on the goddamn dogs. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-06-14 9:43:18 AM |
| #1 desperate to stop the transition eh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-14 8:22:05 AM |