Hotel death toll lowered to 7

[nicecakes]

Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Rescue crews on Thursday called off their search for survivors of a massive suicide bombing of a hotel in Baghdad that killed at least 7 people, just days before the anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

The military had earlier said that 27 people were killed in the Baghdad bombing. It then revised that to 17 and later Thursday Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said only seven were killed.

http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/iraq/topstories/031804ccjcinttoll17.9906c760.html

[BlueEyedSon]

1. I guess they got better.

(Tip of the hat to Monty Python.)

[yellowcanine]

6. I will never forget that MP episode with the dead parrot.

Where the pet shop owner kept throwing the parrot up in the air insisting that it was still alive.

[TahitiNut]

7. He's just pinin' for the fjords.

:shrug:

[jab105]

2. How do you mess something like that up??

I mean, I can see it being higher, but its strange to go lower so significantly??

[NNN0LHI]

3. Think you already posted this story once?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=431098

[nicecakes]

4. That was a doubted .MIL report

This is a more trusted AP report.

[shance]

5. Did they come back to life??

n/t