Huge Explosion Hits Central Baghdad (11/11/04)

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A huge explosion hit the heart of Baghdad Thursday, sending up plumes of thick black smoke above the central part of the capital.



The blast appeared to have hit near Saadoun Street, a densely populated commercial area with major hotels housing foreigners. Ambulance sirens were heard wailing nearby

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20041111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_blast

more sounds of freedom :eyes:

[izzie]

1. It was nothing. Bush stepped out of his bubble and heard about

the war and men get killed.

[librarycard]

2. May as well keep this post kicked for the next decade

~

[maddezmom]

3. bodies littering the pavement

A police official said a car bomb ripped through one of the main shopping streets in central Baghdad, causing many casualties.

A reporter on the scene saw bodies littering the pavement, which had been packed with shoppers when the attack happened at about 11:30am (7.30 AEDT
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_blast&cid=540&ncid=1480

[Sideways]

4. This Is The Weekend In Iraq

Thursday is the equivalent of our Saturday. Shit this is so disgusting. My mental health is suffering mightily with all this non stop violence.

[TomClash]

5. Don't worry be happy

[Englander]

6. Police patrol was apparently target of car bomb...

Vehicles burn following a car bomb in the centre of Baghdad. Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Getty

[Sideways]

7. 17 Dead Scores Wounded

FUCK YOU GEORGE W BUSH....FUCKING NAZI

[DS1]

13. Well, to play devil's advocate, I've never seen any reports about

the Poles, French, or Jews blowing up their own people :shrug:

[leftchick]

8. USATODAY:Car bomb explodes in Baghdad; 17 killed

...and the chimpass* says:" freedom is on the march"... :puke:


http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-11-11-iraq_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

~snip~

A police captain on the scene, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the blast had narrowly missed a U.S. convoy that passed by seconds before.

The explosion gouged a giant crater near Nasser Square on Saadoun Street, a densely populated commercial area with major hotels housing foreigners.

An Associated Press reporter on the scene saw five dead bodies in the rubble, including a decapitated corpse. Police said at least 17 people were killed.

Also Thursday, U.S. forces found and freed an Iraqi who had been chained to a wall and beaten by his captors in a building in Fallujah, the military said Thursday. The man told Marines he was a taxi driver held for 10 days.

[maddezmom]

10. At least 19 die in Baghdad car bombing, 15 wounded

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide car bomb attack Thursday has killed at least 19 people and heavily damaged storefronts in a busy commercial district of central Baghdad, an Iraqi police official said.

Fifteen others were wounded in the attack, which targeted a vehicle carrying Americans and a police vehicle.

Twenty-five cars were destroyed and burned, and 20 shops and buildings were damaged in the explosion.

The blast left a hole on the ground about three meters deep and four meters wide.



http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/11/iraq.main/index.html

[Ilsa]

9. Oh hush. I wanna hear more about the pageantry planned for

DimSon's and pickles crowning, uh, I mean inauguration.

[Supersedeas]

12. Yessss....more Pagentry...more Peterson

[Javaman]

11. Ahhh the daily huge baghdad explosion...

Think we will get the real explanation for this one? Hell no

[hatrack]

14. Freeedom's on the march!

In fact, it's marching in one big explosive step at a time.