Breaking on BBC: Blast at US Base in Mosul

[maddezmom]

will look for a link. Many feared dead. :(

found link:

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb exploded inside a joint U.S.-Iraq base in Mosul on Monday and many people were feared dead, Interior Ministry sources said.

The sources said the explosion targeted Iraqi army recruits. One Interior Ministry source said the attack may have been carried out by a suicide bomber strapped with explosives but it was not immediately possible to verify this.


http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-03-27T095017Z_01_GEO735220_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-MOSUL-BLAST.xml

[maddezmom]

1. no link yet but sourced on BBC from Reuters

bom Blast in Joint US-Iraq base in Mosul, many feared dead

[bluestateguy]

2. I don't pay any attention to the bullshit Iraq War anymore

I'm just spent. This country voted for it, and now they are just little late in deciding that they are tired of the war.

I have MY life, and MY problems and the Iraq War is no longer a part of it.

Well, anyway. I heard Lindsay Lohan may get the part for the new Wonder Woman movie. BAD choice.

[Zhade]

15. At a billion a week, you'd better believe the war affects you.

Sticking your head in the sand is not only unfeasible, it's downright pathetic. People are dying, FFS.

[0007]

16. I thought Barbara Bush was the new Wonder Woman?

[KyndCulture]

25. wow ! That's mighty selfish.

[MadisonProgressive]

38. Her mams fill the bill for me

[niallmac]

47. I remember one day visiting my parents

and bringing up the topic of the Iraq invasion, the first one under dubya senior. My mom said "at this point I could care less. I can't watch it anymore. I can't do anything about it and all that the TV does is bring sadness to the house. We read in the evenings."
My mom was a geriatric progressive liberal fireball but upon this moment she uttered
an idea I had never considered.
'There comes a time when I have to choose who is more important; me or that war of theirs.'

[Pachamama]

3. But....where is the good news?

Instead of "many feared dead", you should be saying "many survived"....

Sheesh Maddezmom, didn't you get the Meme? :eyes:

:sarcasm:

:hi:

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[okieinpain]

22. there you go, that's how america wants it's news. great job.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Bomb explodes at US-Iraq base in Mosul

Bomb explodes at US-Iraq base in Mosul
Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:50 AM ET

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb exploded inside a joint U.S.-Iraq base in Mosul on Monday and many people were feared dead, Interior Ministry sources said.

The sources said the explosion targeted Iraqi army recruits. One Interior Ministry source said the attack may have been carried out by a suicide bomber strapped with explosives but it was not immediately possible to verify this.
(snip/)

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-03-27T095017Z_01_GEO735220_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-MOSUL-BLAST.xml

[malaise]

8. BBC saying

30 dead according to Reuters. Freedom is on the march.

[KansDem]

33. "suicide bomber" or Americans dressed as Arabs?

This is getting predictable. I'm beginning to wonder about all "terrorist" attacks since the fall of the Berlin Wall--wondering who was really behind them.

[maddezmom]

6. BBC reporting !5 killed in US-Iraqi Base

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Just another day in paradise

More than 81 killed in attacks over the weekend and now this.

[Cooley Hurd]

9. CNN just confirmed that 20 are dead in the blast...

:(

[maddezmom]

10. Bomb explodes at US-Iraqi base in Mosul, 30 dead

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060327/ts_nm/iraq_mosul_blast_dc_3

[Cooley Hurd]

12. Shit...

I would assume that the US base is Mosul is a relatively soft target for the insurgents (not as fortified as the Green Zone, for example)...

[maddezmom]

14. 2nd time a suicide bomber got into this base

from the link:
In December 2004 a suicide bomber wearing Iraqi uniform blew himself up at a U.S. armed forces mess tent in Mosul, killing 21 people, among them 14 U.S. troops and four other Americans.

[cali]

11. It's such a

cluster fuck. The more obscene happy talk out of the admin, the bitterer I get. What's the breaking point? How much more can the Iraqis bear? How much more bullshit are the American people willing to swallow? This war is a slow poison in this country, and deadly in Iraq.

[paul_fromatlanta]

13. Unconfirmed reports say all the victims were Iraqis, although details of t

Blast rocks US-Iraq military base
Map, Iraq and Mosul
At least 30 people have been killed by a bomb inside a military base housing US and Iraqi forces near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police say.

Police said the blast might have been caused by a suicide bomber targeting Iraqi army recruits in Kask village.

Unconfirmed reports say all the victims were Iraqis, although details of the incident are still coming in.

Mosul was the scene of a bombing in 2004 that killed 18 Americans and four Iraqis at a military base.

A suicide bomber wearing an Iraqi military uniform detonated explosives he was carrying in a US armed forces mess tent.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4849154.stm

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

36. WHEW! what a RELIEF!!-at least none of "our guys"" died!-THANK GOD !!

-that title was sarcastic -a joke-
sarcasm off--seriously-
I even hate it when seals get killed in Canada--
Troops home now.

[paul_fromatlanta]

41. I think its natural to care more about people and things we identify with

I love cats but I care more about my cat than other cats.

I have friends and family in Iraq and so attacks that kill Americans hit home in a different way.

That said, we should strive to rise above those impulses or at least to not allow to much disparity.

This may not be the thread for it but I believe very bad things would happen if we packed up and left Iraq suddenly. I remember the slaughter in Vietnam. I opposed the war in Vietnam but i still believe we did not leave properly.

[IndianaGreen]

43. very bad things would happen if we packed up and left Iraq suddenly

I believe very bad things would happen if we packed up and left Iraq suddenly

There was no slaughter in Vietnam after we left, in fact, the slaughter came to an end because we left. The longer we delay withdrawing from Iraq, the more likely that Iraq will end with our Ambassador being rescued by helicopter from the Green Zone.

[paul_fromatlanta]

44. The fall of Saigon went much better than doomsayers had predicted

So you have a point. But there were still more deaths in 24 hours than American forces have suffered in two years in Iraq. And there was a tremendous suppression of freedoms thereafter and massive "re-education."

In Iraq I have no confidence that the Kurds would surrender quietly the way the corrupt South Vietnamese government did and I have no confidence that the death toll would not quickly eclipse that of the last two years or that those Iraqis who have helped us would not be the main victims.

I want the troops out of Iraq in an orderly fashion but an immediate withdrawal isn't even in the Washington debate mix... The focus there is on the administration plan to invade Iran. If something doesn't change we will soon have two wars.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

45. You're SERIOUS?-WOW-a true Murkin!-God Bless America and Nobody Else!

I find it amazing--but whatever--
go team go !
rah rah rah-

that was sarcasm -->the rah rah rah-go team-

I don't care if yer grandma is fighting in Iraq-
Our guys aren't worth more than their guys--
sorry-
That's the problem with this whole steal the oil in the Middle East campaign...

All dems know that it's the repubes that believe the end justifies the means-
that idea was from LEO STRAUS--the neocon's guru/master--how they derived their entire PNAC philosophy-
So don't try and pulin' our cheney !

and if yer grandma wears combat boots and your nephew, your daughter and all the kids on your block are all in Iraq
I sincerely hope they all arrive home safely!
Seriously- the best way to ensure that is to get ALL Troops Home Now--
Not another day more of senseless death.

[paul_fromatlanta]

46. I didn't say anything like wahtever it was you think you responded to.

In fact, I said "we should strive to rise above those impulses or at least to not allow to much disparity."

So I really don't get your response.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

48. just going off a bit--

it's just that a lot of people think that American lives are worth more-
a life is a life--ours --theirs--who cares--this killing serves no purpose.
--and we have absolutely no business invading a soveriegn nation that posed no threat to us or its neighbors
-by the way I think some of us have forgotten somehow that Iraq had no part in 911--

Military presence in the region is absurd.
It would have been like getting bombed at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese and then attacking Spain.

peace!

TROOPS HOME NOW

[cal04]

17. 40 dead after blast at US-Iraqi base

As many as 40 people were killed today when a suicide bomber blew himself up amid a group of men queueing at an army recruitment centre outside a joint US-Iraqi military base in northwest Iraq. The attack was at the Tamarat base near Tal Afar, a town near the city of Mosul held up in a recent speech by President Bush as a success story for American and Iraqi forces in the drive to quell the insurgency. The US military said there were no American casualties from the blast.

The exact details and death toll were still unclear, but an Interior Ministry official said: "Forty people have died and 20 were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the midst of candidates waiting at a recruitment centre for the Iraqi defence forces." It was one of Iraq's bloodiest attacks since a suicide bombing at a police recruitment centre in Ramadi which left 70 dead four months ago.

Mosul, Iraq's third city, was used as the base of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division during the initial stages of the invasion three years ago. The restive city has since become the scene of a fierce land war between Kurds and Sunni Muslims. It was also the scene of one of the most deadly insurgent attacks against coalition forces. Fourteen US soldiers, four US civilians and four Iraqi soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the dining hall of the Forward Operating Base within the airfield complex in December 2004. The attacker wore an Iraqi uniform to gain access to the compound.

Meanwhile, details emerged of a joint U.S.-Iraqi Special Operations attack in northeast Baghdad last night that saw the heaviest battle with Shia militiamen in a year.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2106068,00.html

[acmavm]

18. So, does this many dead Iraqis put us any closer to being

able to say that there is a civil war going on or is there a special magic number that the bush8* admin has in order for reality to kick in?

[tinymontgomery]

19. Why do you hate america

stop posting this bad news and tell me good things, how many schools opened, how many chocolate bars did we give out, how much electricity is now being generated, how many billionaires have we made in Iraq. Stop being so negative.

sarcasm of course!

[saigon68]

40. HERE IS SOME "GOOD NEWS"

</SARCASM>

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

50. Iraqi man accidentally tuned into Bush speech in his car...

[LibDemAlways]

49. Yep, let's look at the up side....

Our invasion and occupation has certainly created a booming Iraqi funeral industry. Casket makers and grave diggers are no doubt working double shifts. I'm amazed FAUX "News" isn't covering this new growth industry the Bush Crime Family has created in Iraq.

[lonestarnot]

20. "Freedom on the march" heh heh heh :shoulder shrug:

:sarcasm:

[maxrandb]

21. Guess * will have lots of "hugging" to do

'cause that's what he does, he hugs. He hugs mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers. He's a hugger, he cares, he really, really, really cares...it just tears him up :sarcasm:

on edit, I guess he won't have to hug if all the dead were just "Irakeees".

Makes me wonder what America did that we deserve this little piss-ant.

[0007]

23. Onward Christian sailors sailing on to war.....hear their cry for

Jesus....

[rodeodance]

24. I feel so bad for the Iraqi--people in general--

[tblue37]

26. My nephew was stationed in Mosul for his year in Iraq.

He's in the States now, but this is very scary.

[maddezmom]

28. I'm glad he's home

:hug:

Just hope the rest of them get home soon, too.

[saigon68]

32. Unfortunately Many are now going back for their THIRD TOURS

ITS CALLED NEVER ENDING WAR.

[MadMaddie]

27. So has the Tet Offensive started yet?

[Ian David]

29. Last throes? n/t

[0rganism]

39. ya know, those last throe things can take decades

Besides, what about all the GOOD news coming out of Iraq? Let's focus on all the Iraqis who weren't bombed today!

[Czolgosz]

30. And Bush will whine that media failed to report the good news out of Mosul

[ooglymoogly]

31. forget about this, why must we always dwell on the negative

we want to see glorious (fake) joint operations showing how good things are...brought to you by the bats in *s' belfry.

[smoogatz]

34. And now, the good news from Iraq:

[Roland99]

35. But..but..but...the largest air assault in 3 years made Tal Afar SAFE!

:sarcasm:

[fooj]

37. 30,000 dead Iraqi's...

Anyone else notice how that number hasn't changed in 6+ months...

:grr:

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