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Large Explosion in Downtown Baghdad
Fox News | 12/14/03

Posted on 12/14/2003 9:31:47 AM PST by fhayek

Just reported. Large explosion at just about the same time as Bush completed his address.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baghdad; bushspeech; carbomb; greatnews; gulfwar2; gulfwarii; iraq; iraqaftermath; saddam; saddamcaptured; saddamhussein; terrorist; terroristbombing; tikrit; topplesaddam
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To: fhayek
Looks like a carbomb in an isolated area.
21 posted on 12/14/2003 9:40:26 AM PST by sigSEGV
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To: WackyKat
it was just a old ford pinto
22 posted on 12/14/2003 9:40:42 AM PST by al baby (Ice cream does not have bones)
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To: fhayek
Are there ever any small explosions in Baghdad?
23 posted on 12/14/2003 9:40:43 AM PST by MattAMiller
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To: TomGuy
I doubt from looking at that picture that there was any structural damage. Car bombs that take down buildings are usually pick up trucks or trucks, and those trucks are usually almost vaporized. Every once in a while car bombs go off in SouthEast Spain and they injure some people but don't cause fatalities.
24 posted on 12/14/2003 9:41:06 AM PST by ChicagoRepublican
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To: fhayek
After we killed Uday and Kusay (sp?), the fedayeen went on a killing spree. I'm sure they do the same now.
25 posted on 12/14/2003 9:41:31 AM PST by mikegi
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To: TomGuy
NBC footage seems to show it didn't damage anything. Except for the car, of course.
26 posted on 12/14/2003 9:41:31 AM PST by chiller (could be wrong, but doubt it)
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To: al baby
Unsafe at any speed?
27 posted on 12/14/2003 9:42:18 AM PST by William McKinley (Avoiding that nasty Gestapo that RJ warned me about)
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To: fhayek
Looks like we should be sending over more mechanics.
28 posted on 12/14/2003 9:42:56 AM PST by ChadGore (No blood for ratings! This means YOU AOL-Time-Warner-Turner-CNN)
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To: Travis McGee
Fortunately President Bush made sure to say this won't be the end of the violence over there. He was making sure they couldn't tag him again like they did over his statement that the major part of the war ended on the carrier. He has learned they will twist his words and use them against him.
29 posted on 12/14/2003 9:43:08 AM PST by ladyinred (If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door!)
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To: fhayek
Charlie Gibson on ABC quoting Reuters:

This was an explosion of fuel canisters on the bed of a truck. NOT A TERRORIST ATTACK.

It's very likely this had something to do with all the rounds being fired into the air in celebration, IMHO.

30 posted on 12/14/2003 9:43:30 AM PST by mrobison (We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.)
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To: fhayek
Scary thought: Saddam's capture was the "sign" for some terrorist cells to unleash their worst... let's just hope their worst is car-bombs, and not WMD's.
31 posted on 12/14/2003 9:44:26 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: hole_n_one
You call that a fire?

I'd like to see a couple of hundred fedayeen all light themselves on fire simultaneously-- that would really show me something!!! I double dog dare them!
32 posted on 12/14/2003 9:44:41 AM PST by RobFromGa (Bring Us Your Talented Individuals, Your Visionaries Yearning to Be Free. Keep the Huddled Masses)
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To: hole_n_one
You call that a fire?

I'd like to see a couple of hundred fedayeen all light themselves on fire simultaneously-- that would really show me something!!! I double dog dare them!
33 posted on 12/14/2003 9:44:51 AM PST by RobFromGa (Bring Us Your Talented Individuals, Your Visionaries Yearning to Be Free. Keep the Huddled Masses)
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To: mrobison
This was an explosion of fuel canisters on the bed of a truck. NOT A TERRORIST ATTACK.

Ahhh, true freedom. Blowing up things like we do after sporting events. lol.
34 posted on 12/14/2003 9:48:02 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: mrobison
"This was an explosion of fuel canisters on the bed of a truck. NOT A TERRORIST ATTACK."

"It's very likely this had something to do with all the rounds being fired into the air in celebration, IMHO."

So soon after President Bush's speech? No, this was not an accident but a deliberate attempt to deflect attention from what Bush said. If anything, it reconfirms what Bush said, that we must be careful because the war on terror continues.

35 posted on 12/14/2003 9:48:46 AM PST by CatOwner
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To: chiller
NBC footage seems to show it didn't damage anything. Except for the car, of course.

Nevertheless, let me predict the delivery, "A car bomb following immediately on the heels of the President's speech only marks the increasing tension in Iraq, as the violence mounts. The Iraqi resistance is making it evident that the capture of Hussein WILL NOT in any way lessen the attacks on coalition forces, increasingly seen as brutal occupiers...."

36 posted on 12/14/2003 9:48:49 AM PST by wizardoz
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To: RobFromGa
I'd like to see a couple of hundred fedayeen all light themselves on fire simultaneously-- that would really show me something!!! I double dog dare them



maybe the liberals will join them, after all they are after the same thing

In any even what a bunch of poor sports. Sure take your bombs and blow them up.

I hope our guys remain safe cause this is probably the begining of the end.



37 posted on 12/14/2003 9:49:42 AM PST by hapy
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To: TomGuy
Next thing you know, they'll be overturning police cars.

This is the closest the Iraqis will ever come to knowing what it feels like to win the Superbowl.

Let the kids play.

38 posted on 12/14/2003 9:50:00 AM PST by mrobison (We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.)
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To: ladyinred
Quite so.
39 posted on 12/14/2003 9:50:10 AM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: TomGuy
Ahhh, true freedom. Blowing up things like we do after sporting events. lol.

SPEAKING OF SPORTING EVENTS IS SUVIVOR GOING TO BE ON TONITE
40 posted on 12/14/2003 9:50:48 AM PST by al baby (Ice cream does not have bones)
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