Witnesses: Iraq Tanker Blast Kills Two (Friday)

[Newsjock]

AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A U.S. military tanker truck exploded on a road outside Baghdad on Friday, and witnesses said two U.S. soldiers were killed and another was wounded.

The casualty reports couldn't be immediately confirmed.

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[soothsayer]

1. this makes 3 of late, right?

are they going to say this one was non combat related too?

or will halliburton use it to support their price gouging (look how dangerous it is to transport fuel, see? it costs alot)

[schultzee]

5. Everytime a pipline bursts or a tanker truck blows up it is more$$$$

and possibly Halliburton itself is causing some of the accidents? hmmmm? Do you trust these people anymore than you trust Ken Lay. The Greed pigs wil do anything for $$$$$$.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. my, my

could the revolt be picking up steam?

Purely from a historical perpective it just may

[saigon68]

11. Wait til next year

[bluestateguy]

3. Finding Saddam Hussein did not make them any more safe

and now their families will have the Christmases ruined by this illegal, immoral, ineffective and meaningless war.

[Newsjock]

4. UPDATE: U.S. military says soldiers wounded, not killed

Edit timer expired on main message.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031219_345.html

The Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq Dec. 19 -- A U.S. military tanker truck exploded on a road outside Baghdad on Friday, wounding two U.S. soldiers, the military said. Before dawn, another blast hit the office of Iraq's major Shiite party, killing one Iraqi woman and wounding five others, witnesses said.

rest of story recaps earlier activity

[schultzee]

6. The blood on the hands of this coutry! Civilians dieing every day!

How can anyone justify this slaughter? Even if these are accidents, people are dieing because we are in Iraq.

[jmcgowanjm]

7. here's the problem, Newsjock

time after time after time (I can find the stories,
so can you), witnesses on the scene keep
saying these soldiers are dead, then centcom
from baghdad, Qatar, wherever come on and say,
no, soldiers were just wounded.

We also know that journalists are warned not to take pics
of dead, wounded GI's. Or bad things will happen

Also, once wounded a GI never dies. Yes,yes
I know, every now and then it's reported, somewhere
a wounded soldier dies.

The figures just don't match.
I don't know how (yet), but a major undercount of
US KIA/WIA is underway.

[sistersofmercy]

8. Completely agree with you

I've noticed the same thing and something is just not right.

[jmcgowanjm]

9. thanx, sistersofmercy, I follow your posts n/t

[saigon68]

10. THE BASTARDS DIRTY LIARS

DIRTY LIARS

Another attack kills U.S. soldier
Convoy struck near town of Ramadi; 2 others hurt

http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3674478&p1=01%7C%7C%7C%7C003


BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. soldier was fatally wounded and two others were hurt in a blast near the flashpoint Iraqi town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday. It was the second confirmed death of a U.S. soldier in about 24 hours as Iraqi rebels stepped up their resistance to a massive counteroffensive the U.S.-led coalition launched last month.

The soldiers were in a convoy when the attack occurred about 6:30 a.m. local time (10:30 p.m. Thursday ET), and one of them died of his wounds in a hospital, the military said in a statement. No other details were immediately

[NickB79]

12. "One of them died of his wounds in a hospital"

Bingo! How rarely do we hear that?

[saigon68]

13. Yah you said it.

About a month ago this really graphic picture of a First Armored Div troop "CUT IN HALF" showed up on French Yahoo (I read it all the time)

The American Yahoo had the picture cropped to show the upper body (Not cut in half) with the caption 2 Soldiers wounded.

2 days later they said the guy "died of wounds"

They are lying motherfuckers.

[diamond14]

14. more spin....today's DOD briefing was ridiculous spin, read it and weap

here are a few snips...this spinning is obscene...buildings just collapse all by themselves...huge explosions are simply 'traffic accidents'...nothing to see here, folks...move on...we'll look into it...

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GEN. KIMMITT: As to the report of an attack in the vicinity of Abu Ghraib, we can't confirm that. We have read the press reports and have tried most of the afternoon to try to confirm that.

.....
We have an accident, an IED attack on a convoy further west of Abu Ghraib, in the vicinity of the town of Hit. That was a convoy from the 3rd ACR that was hit by an explosive device west of Ar Ramadi, just east of al-Hit. And we know that we have two wounded in action that were returned to duty. But we have read that report through the press about an incident with a tanker in the vicinity of Abu Ghraib. We cannot confirm it although we have talked to all the units that are in that area and they can't confirm it either.


............

And the other question is, do you guys have any information on the bombing early this morning at the -- what was probably a SCIRI office or a SCIRI location in Al Jihad?


GEN. KIMMITT: As to the second incident, like the fuel tanker that supposedly was attacked this morning, we cannot find any evidence of a security building that has been attacked in Baghdad. I'm not saying it did not happen, but we've had all of the units who have responsibility for areas that include buildings belonging to SCIRI go out and check, and we can't find an evidence of that. We would appreciate, because we don't know where that report had come from, we would appreciate if the news agency that put that out would contact us so at least we could go down and validate whether that event did or did not happen.

Q If I could follow, just to make sure we're talking about the same thing, it was on -- it's been on networks and I went to it. I can't tell you exactly where, but it's Al Jihad. And if you ask anyone there, they'll show you. It's like a pancaked building now.

GEN. KIMMITT: Okay. Could I get together with you after this? Because I'd like that information.

Q Okay.


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And General, if I could just clarify your knowledge about this morning's bombing.

GEN. KIMMITT: On the SCIRI building, I've just been given a report here, and I think we need to validate it a little more. It said the building did not blow up. The Iraqi Police Service reported to 1st Armored Division that the building collapsed due to structural integrity flaws. I don't know what that means. I think we need to follow up on that.


Q I have two sort of unrelated questions. First, you aware of any other buildings in town that have just spontaneously collapsed without any outside help?...


http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20031219-1041.html