[wizardoz]

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...."

[chiller]

While your theory that a statement from Baathists is possible, it looks like fuel cannisters were accidentally or intentionally shot and ineffectively exploded.

if it was a "statement", it was a embarrassingly weak attempt.