AP Breaking: Large explosion in central Baghdad...

[Cooley Hurd]

...during morning rush hour. Car bomb causing many casualties, according to CNN's Jane Arraf.

Link from AP: http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1937627

Baghdad, Iraq-AP -- A strong explosion has rocked central Baghdad, and police and witnesses say a car bomb has exploded.

Dozens are said to have been wounded.

Remains of a car could be seen scattered along the street on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. Passing motorists shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great" and "Down with the U-S-A."

The blast shattered a building near a bridge leading to the Green Zone headquarters of the coalition authority.

[struggle4progress]

1. Again? You can almost set your watch by this news.

[Tight_rope]

31. It's like an alarm clock..."Bomb"...right on time! n/t

[murielm99]

2. I looked at the time and date of this post just to make sure

it wasn't yesterday's news, or the day before's news, or the day before that.

And how many governing council/ministerial Iraquis have been killed? Is it three? I am beginning to lose track.

There is nothing cynical in this post. I don't want to get callous about this.

I just hope President Kerry has some good plans to get us out of this mess.

[Pachamama]

3. The need to start reporting it as "Car Bomb #565" & Gov't Official #87"

....otherwise you never know if it was already the car bombing and assasination you heard of in the last 24 hours....

What a f**king mess we made over there....and our kids and theres are dieing for what again?

:grr:

[0007]

14. Yes, and it is about time for another bin Laden video

....and we should start numbering those Binny videos, also Ashcroft's alerts need to be identified by a number.

[wildwww2]

18. Our kids are dying for Bu$h`s only chance to steal the election.

A needless war crime makes perfect cover for an election theft. Watch and see.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[Doctor Smith]

4. Right on schedule.

[kungfugrip]

5. I hope the Iraqis are enjoying all that peace and freedom Bush gave em.

[Skittles]

19. yup

and I find it disturbing when people say well gee, wouldn't we rather fight the war on terror "over there" instead of here? I bet the Iraqi childen apprieciate that. Such a CHRISTIAN thing to say. :puke:

[newyawker99]

23. Hi kungfugrip!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Tight_rope]

32. Welcome to DU kungfugrip!

:pals:

[dArKeR]

6. Col. Qadri Abdul-Latif said at least 12 people were killed - MSGOP

Col. Qadri Abdul-Latif said at least 12 people were killed, many of them in shops and a two-story building that were heavily damaged in the blast.

The scene was chaotic, with people trying to pull out victims from the wreckage. Several of them vented their anger at foreign reporters, since many Iraqis blame the Americans for having stirred up violence by their presence.

American troops arrived at the scene and tried to seal off the area.

Three U.S. 1st Cavalry Division soldiers dragged a bystander away from the scene and began beating him with a stick. Iraqi police had to intervene as the crowd screamed in outrage.

American soldiers brandished their weapons to try to restrain the crowd.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5057770/

[lebkuchen]

7. Overall American casualties are down to 1.64 for June

Obviously, US soldiers are hunkered in behind base walls for the duration of this month, if not longer.

[brokensymmetry]

8. Yes - but -

what about the supply lines? It's great to be hunkered down, but dangerous to be surrounded and cut off.

No, that could never happen....could it?

[anarchy1999]

11. ummm, yes it could, read your history of the Mid-East and the end

of the 2nd World War. Double-crossed and violated every promise made. How exactly again did the Brits fare when they tried to control the new country of Iraq? That's right, they had to flee after a very large loss of life..............

Supply lines, that is the least of what we should be worrying about, I just want all our troops home, safe and sound now. Otherwise, I think there is going to be a wholesale slaughter.

[lebkuchen]

13. Supply lines are what the Iraqis have been successful attacking

W/the supposed "turn-over" the end of the month, knowing full well that there will be an increase in attacks, the US military has to make some difficult choices. Certainly, they are not out on patrols maintaining security as much as they had been. They have the Iraqis doing those now, and look what's happening to them.

BTW, five French contractors were killed in the latest blast.

[Piperay]

9. So many that I can't even keep track

of which one is which or if the one being reported is the same one or a different one from the I last heard about. :shrug: :o

[Teaser]

10. WTF is this?

From the updated story:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040614/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

American troops beat one man with a stick; but after trying in vain to restrain the crowd, the troops and police withdrew from the area.

There is no context here. Why were we beating some dude with a stick?

[Spentastic]

12. I don't know why

But the absudity of this brought unwelcome laughter.

How to stop car bombers, beat people with sticks.

[Aidoneus]

17. Well, it goes with the territory & position

When a control-freak dictatorial force proves itself to be impotent and helpless, it tends to thrash around blindly.

They are beating that guy in order to further enhance his liberation experience. And because he might know how to raise morale.

[THUNDER HANDS]

20. sounds Monty Pythonesque

"When are you going to teach us how to defend ourselves against someone armed with a pointed stick?"

[htuttle]

22. Shut Up!

[crossroads]

29. I could just *feel* the love from this story...

We are going to hand over this mess the end of June, eh? Hmmm... Oh, really?
:wtf:

[Tight_rope]

33. Well you know the abuse will not stop! They can't kick the habit!

[leftchick]

15. Well Shit... These guys look happy about it!

Men dance on a vehicle in front of a building damaged by a car bomb in central Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday, June 14, 2004. The bomb explosion at rush hour on one of Baghdad's busiest roads left dozens are feared injured or dead. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)

From Teasers link:

<snip>The bomb in Baghdad went off as three SUVs carrying the contractors were passing through Tahrir Square in the center of the city. Five other vehicles were also destroyed, as well as nearby shops and a two-story house.

Iraqi civil defense Col. Qadri Abdul-Latif said at least 12 people were killed, many of them in the surrounding buildings.

The attack unleashed fresh anger at the United States.

As bystanders crammed bodies into pickup trucks to rush them to hospitals, a crowd gathered at the scene, shouting "Down with the USA!" and setting fire to an American flag. A group of about 20 young men danced around a charred body.

American troops beat one man with a stick; but after trying in vain to restrain the crowd, the troops and police withdrew from the area.

[leftchick]

16. Five Contractors Among 13 Dead in Baghdad Blast: Reuters...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040614/wl_nm/iraq_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480

<snip>
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bombing in the heart of Baghdad killed at least 13 people on Monday, five of them foreign electricity contractors in a passing convoy.

Two Britons and a Frenchman were among the dead. It was the second suicide bombing in the Iraqi capital in 24 hours and coincided with a wave of assassinations aimed at the new interim government appointed to take over from the U.S.-British occupation authorities on June 30.


Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said five foreign workers had been killed in the morning rush-hour attack, which devastated a busy street and ripped the front off one building.

"Today's explosion targeted foreign civilians working in the rebuilding of electricity works. Five of them were killed and three were lightly wounded," he told a news conference.

[oneighty]

21. Arrest that man

Senator Hatch, he desecrate American flag.

180

[saigon68]

25. HERE IS DUDE

[leftchick]

30. scary shit saigon....

The US is creating new resistance fighters by the hundreds DAILY!

[TrogL]

24. I thought we agreed to put date and timestamps on these threads

Or is this like the daily stock market thread?

[saigon68]

26. THE MERCENARY BOYS FROM BILGEWATER USA AGAIN

Unidentified armed Americans investigate the scene following a car bombing in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 14, 2004. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)



An Iraqi man holds the sole of a shoe against a British flag, an insult in the Arab world, after it was found amid the debris of a car bomb explosion in the center of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad June 14, 2004. A suicide car bomber blew himself up on a busy Baghdad street on Monday as a convoy of foreigners in civilian cars drove past, partly demolishing a nearby building, police at the scene said. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber

THESE MERCENARIES BETTER BE CAREFUL THE BARBECUE IS ABOUT TO GET FIRED UP AGAIN

[Gloria]

27. BBC World Service this AM said that protesters were "pushing back"

at American troops and shouting for Americans to go home.......

[saigon68]

28. MERCENARIES

Viceroy Pontius Paul Bremer I

announced that more former members of Saddam's military would be allowed to join the ranks of
the new US-trained army because of the poor performance of the Iraqi forces during rebel
attacks.(AFP/Pool/File/Damir Sagolj)





NOT ONLY THE BILGEWATER INC. PRIVATE ARMY w/ ITS HELICOPTERS BUT
SOON TO REHIRE SADDAM’S GUYS AS "CONSULTANTS"


Viceroy Pontius Bremer (w/red tie, blue shirt below) of the Amerikan Province of Eastern
Iraq-Nam

With his Praetorian Mercenary Guard

Appointed by Cheney Caesar in the year of Our Lord 2003

[belab13]

34. Groundhog Day in Baghdad.. eom