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2006-10-26 Iraq

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Posted by Glenmore 2006-10-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Maybe they're finally running low on Number Threes.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-10-26 01:26|| 2006-10-26 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Remember that car ad that has to be pulled as it was deemed so horribly un-PC? The one with a splodey. I am starting to think the manufacturer was not kidding. ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2006-10-26 01:34|| 2006-10-26 01:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe "loaded" means that some explosives had been loaded into the car, and not that the car was chockablock with them?

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-10-26 02:08|| 2006-10-26 02:08|| Front Page Top

#4 For a lot of the MSM, an ounce of plastique is a huge amount. Could have easily been a transport vehicle that had an unintended detonation, the level of expertise is dropping since so many of the better bomb-makers have been rounded up lately. Also sounds like that vehicle did not have any of the fragmentation enhancements added : nails, ball bearings, scrap metal pieces.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-26 02:47|| 2006-10-26 02:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Was it a VW Polo?

Posted by .com 2006-10-26 03:13|| 2006-10-26 03:13|| Front Page Top

#6 doubtful if they are running low on "number 3's" .. They've only just started using their first cousins , still millions to go .. Its a (inbred) family business

Posted by Chilet Crealet6299 2006-10-26 04:38|| 2006-10-26 04:38|| Front Page Top

#7 .com, yea, that's the one.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-10-26 05:18|| 2006-10-26 05:18|| Front Page Top

#8 doubtful if they are running low on "number 3's"

Of course, Chilet Crealet6299, but it sure looks like we've gotten inside their training cycle. The quality of their work has been falling for a while, no?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-26 07:34|| 2006-10-26 07:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Bomb makers losing their touch? We can only hope.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-10-26 08:09|| 2006-10-26 08:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe it was a Pinto and someone rear-ended it. Might not have been an attack at all.

Posted by Gluger Gluns4918 2006-10-26 09:10|| 2006-10-26 09:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Could have been on an explosives delivery run and hit a bad pothole.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-10-26 09:53|| 2006-10-26 09:53|| Front Page Top

#12 A small vehicle loaded with explosives and carrying three Iraqi civilians detonated,...

Vehicles are now loading themselves with explosives? I think my head is in a quagmire now.

Posted by bool 2006-10-26 10:55|| 2006-10-26 10:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Boo, hoo. Some poor civilian bombmakers killed themselves. Boo, hoo.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-10-26 11:09|| 2006-10-26 11:09|| Front Page Top

#14 "Unsafe at any speed."

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-10-26 11:11|| 2006-10-26 11:11|| Front Page Top

#15 The effects of the Intellgence campaign against bomb makers is bearing fruit if the are sploding themselves.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-10-26 11:15|| 2006-10-26 11:15|| Front Page Top

#16 At what point does a civilian become an insurgent and an insurgent then become a terrorist? The lines are much too grey. Are they insurgents when they are fighting but then civilians when they die or are injured?

Used to be we would de-humanize the enemy, now we victimize the enemy. Suppose that makes us the enemy then.

Posted by bool 2006-10-26 11:19|| 2006-10-26 11:19|| Front Page Top

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