Turn CNN on now - Live feed from a huge bomb in Iraq

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[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. Reduction in Number of Attacks?

Yeah...right. Who was injured?

[bluestateguy]

2. All of the Big 3 cable networks have coverage

To be on at this hour on a Sat. night, it must be a big deal.

[Must_B_Free]

3. I was going to, but then I thought

"who the heck wants to watch the aftermath of that?"

[Sperk]

4. Jesus, looks like 4 or 5 cars on fire. This is pure madness....

if they think I'm letting my kid go over there.....
Shove it Bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:mad:

[NYC]

5. Please provide updates.

I don't get CNN. Thanks.

[Cannikin]

8. Near the gate to coalition HQ....

[UnAmericanJoe]

13. Looks pretty bad

The guy on CNN just informed us that the most dangerous job in IRAQ has to be police man. Well Duh.
Actually I think it might be the only job you can get in Iraq.

[alcuno]

16. Looks like a huge explosion.

There are at least 3 vehicles including a small bus totally on fire and what looks like a couple of dead people in the street; they said they've already evacuated the injured. They are saying no reports of fatalites but you can see at least one dead man. Also they are reporting 1 servicemember injured. It's at an entrance to the CPA called "Assassin's Gate."

[Cleita]

6. What a mess o' potamia Mr. Bush, you big idiot.

eom

[Cannikin]

10. Dont make me laugh!

That made me think of the Daily Show.

[benburch]

7. From CNN website...

BREAKING NEWS
An explosion outside Coalition HQ in Baghdad wounds several people. Details soon

[Nomad559]

9. A very LARGE explosion

Edit - Video added

Suicide Car Bomb

[Cannikin]

11. possible 6 Iraqis killed.

No word of american casualties.

[Dookus]

12. Watching now...

it looks like a big one.... a lot of cars on fire, a lot of smoke... witnesses say "many casualties are Iraqis"

[SadEagle]

20. many, but not all?

Not that nationality matters much for the victims at the moment...

[jburton]

14. car bomb

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3407061.stm

A large explosion, believe to be caused by a car bomb, has gone off in central Baghdad, with reports of casualties.

It is believed to have occurred in an area close to a former palace of Saddam Hussein, which is now used as an American military base.

[Sperk]

15. soldiers walking around, they look lost...

questioning Iraqis, trying to push people back. Showing people just walking around or watching at a distance. If this isn't Hell on earth, I don't know what is. :-(
"Oh what a web we weave, when we practice to deceive."
Think they'll wait Idiot Boy up, or just let him sleep in?

[Sperk]

17. How long before * sends Saddam back in to restore order?

:wtf:

[Catherine Vincent]

19. Hmmm......

n/t

[Zomby Woof]

18. all that, and 500 soldier casualties

So sickening this waste.

[SadEagle]

21. BBC website ticker says about 15 Iraquis killed according to US military.

hope they overcounted.

[Kanary]

33. 18 Iraquis killed

So far, the 15 wasn't overcounted.

I can't even imagine what it must be like to have your country under attack like that.

Kanary

edited: 4 americans injured. News reports during a crisis are always suspect.

[Cleita]

22. Confirmed that it was a suicide bomber and the bomb was a big one.

What does it take to make a big bomb? I hope nothing radioactive.

[i_am_not_john_galt]

23. They should hang those suicide bombers.

the jerks.

[...Alltogethernow]

24. Too good for them

... should be quartered first

[Sperk]

25. Is that you * ?

n/t

[...Alltogethernow]

36. I appreciate the levity (I think) but

... I just want to see the killing stop

[RandomKoolzip]

27. Dontcha mean, "homicide bombers?"

Yeah, let's kill those corpses!

[i_am_not_john_galt]

Actually I do think that the term Suicide Bombers is inaccurate,

as the suicide part is incidental to what they're doing. Suicide bombers, to my way of thinking, would blow themselves up but not anyone else. Like the monks in Vietnam who would douse themselves with gasoline and then light the match.

[TahitiNut]

34. You mean like ...

?

[i_am_not_john_galt]

35. Hey, no fighting in the war room!

[TahitiNut]

37. Seems to me that Major "King" Kong was a suicide bomber.

If he'd stayed with the plane, then he'd just be the typical beribboned homicide bomber.

[MSchreader]

31. Here's a squeegee and a pair of tweezers

Whatever you can find, you can hang. :eyes:

Martin

[Cleita]

26. Two US soldiers might have been killed, unconfirmed as of yet.

n/t

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

28. Hopefully no American casualties

But I'm glad that the "bomber" died. Rest in shit, loser.

[bigtree]

29. Our soldiers are roughing the Iraqi's up pretty good at the site

Looks like they were trying to pull their dead relatives out. Must be near something important because we are clearing everyone out. Lots of army dogs. Canines for crowd control I guess.

[Nashyra]

32. It was in what they call the "Green Zone"

Right outside one of the old Presidential Palaces that the coalition troops use. Our soldiers were all inside.

[JohnyCanuck]

30. And the UN is in the process of reviewing security in Baghdad

to decide whether it's safe to reopen their offices in Iraq. This won't be a whole lot of help in Shrubby's efforts to get the UN (irrelevant as they might be) involved in Iraq again.

[Old and In the Way]

38. Welcome to the New American Nightmare.

We saw this coming, we knew the end result, but Bush had to have this war. Who will come in and relieve us of our responsibility to fix what we have broken?

Taking Saddam out has opened a Pandora's box for the people of Iraq...we stay and provide the focus for an endless cycle of violence; we leave now and the violence increases as the multiple factions vie for power. This didn't need to happen.

What a mess.

[Karenina]

39. Indeed.

It IS a mess.

[nostamj]

40. less individual attacks, but bigger bombs?

yesterday's IED knocked over a 24 ton tank and now this?

sounds like they're getting better at tactics.