WP: Iraq Hotel Struck Twice by Rebel Rockets (new info)

[grasswire]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29317-2003Dec24.html

A review of the latest attacks on the hotel and other areas, as late as Thursday morning. This part is stunning:

In northern Iraq, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car in front of the Kurdish Interior Ministry in the city of Irbil, near Kirkuk, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said in Baghdad.

Four civilians were killed - two guards, a 13-year-old girl and a passing taxi driver - along with the bomber, said Interior Minister Karim Sinjar. He said 101 people were injured in the 11 a.m. explosion, two seriously.

[pfitz59]

1. Not rebels..dammit!

Nor imsurgents! Resistance fighters or partisans! US Admin is illegitimate, and US selected council mere window-dressing!

[Syrinx]

2. what do you mean is stunning?

The 101 people injured?

[dutchdemocrat]

3. Stunning. What do you think it means?

Stunning. What do you think it means? Beautiful?

Do we have to get into semantics?

stun

PRONUNCIATION: stn
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: stunned, stun·ning, stuns
1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. To stupefy, as with the emotional impact of an experience; astound. See synonyms at daze.
NOUN: A blow or shock that stupefies.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English stonen, Old French estoner, from Vulgar Latin *extonre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin tonre, to thunder; see (s)ten- in Appendix I.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/58/S0825800.html

[IranianDemocrat]

4. lmao

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[Syrinx]

5. Um. I think you are confused.

I was asking what was stunning about the story in question.

[dutchdemocrat]

6. "Um. I think you are confused."

A review of the latest attacks on the hotel and other areas, as late as Thursday morning. This part is stunning:


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I think the 'stunning' part is pretty clear. Don't you?

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

7. What's stunning to me is how quickly the media will dismiss this event

and all that it signifies.

After all, when the Al Rashid Hotel was hit more than a month ago, killing a Col. and wounding several others (an attempt on Wolfie's life, perhaps?), General Dempsey, in charge of security, spoke of how quickly life was returning to "normal" in Baghdad in particular and Iraq in general, and that Wolfie shouldn't take it "personally." It was just one of those things.

The numbers killed and wounded here cannot be considered "normal" by anyone's definition.

[0007]

8. Yes, will be overlooked by the media -

The insurgence's gave a stunning performance on this holy day.

"Bring 'em on!"