Danish Embassy in Damascus, Syria set on fire

CNN ^

[janetjanet998]

Breaking on CNN..Danish Embassy set on fire by Cartoon protesters

[ChadGore]

Danish embassy on fire (Photo: Reuters)  

[El Gato]

Look @ the cross on top . . It's a church!

Agreed, but I hadn't seen that photo yet.

Now to figure out what kind of church, and wait to see if it gets torched as well.

[melt]

It's also perfectly okay to butcher a movie director for satire.

[softwarecreator]

They just haven't figured out a way to blame this on ChimpyMcHalliburtonHilter

Yeah, just give it time.  It's still early in the day, gotta wait for the west coast libbies to emerge from their comas.

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

"...first time I've ever seen a flag burning that wasn't the
Star Spangled Banner. What's the world coming to?"

They quit burning the US flag after it fought back.
Europeans don't fight back... easy target.

  

[debg]

I read 4 embassies (2 buildings) now: Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Chile

http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1702405,00.html

[ChadGore]

Fire bombing the building that contains the embassies of Sweeden, Denmark, and Chile is a terroist act.

[El Gato]

if I walked outside right now, I wouldn't be able to find one to throw.

All depends on where you live. Where I live now there's considerable chunks of limestone around. At my grandparents farm there was a huge pile of glacially smoothed stones which would pop up from time to time. Some of those were flint, some were mineral rocks of some kind, probably quartz or near relatives of it. Thee latter could be quiet pretty on the inside. OTOH, my wife's grandparents farm was pretty much stone free, because after those glaciers went by, there was tens of feet of windblown soil deposited over the top of what the glaciers left behind.

And in that part of the world, they may still use stones for paving material, at least the under layer, which would still leave lots of them lying about.

[ChadGore]

I stand corrected. A quadruple embassy fire bombing.

[jimfree]

Of course, the image that immediately came to mind was something like this:

I was actually visualizing the Warner Brothers characters with Wile E. Coyote throwing an Acme firebomb, but yours is a great interpretation.

[El Gato]

Look closely in the lower left hand corner of that photo.

Even more interesting is the guy in the trench coat with the digital camera (or possibly a very small digital video camera) who doesn't seem to be very happy about appearing in someone else's photo.

Of course the media was there, probably notified ahead of time about the photo op to come.

[ChadGore]

They fire bombed the home of Linus Torvalds. Now I'm pissed.

[pageonetoo]

You have to squeeze the trigger, if you want to hit the target. Pulling it will pull the point of impact off your target.

Thanks for the correction. I'll remember to use the proper terminolgy... now! I was a Navy reservist, 66-68. Boot camp was only 2 weeks...but I got to put out fires and shoot weapons from a .45 sidearm to 5"38's...! It was tough to hit the targets sometimes, with the 5 inchers, but we managed to drop two drones (roflmao)

[El Gato]

This is a triple embassy bombing.

Apparently quadruple (at least!) since it's reported up thread that they've burned the embassy of Norway as well.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Why thats a catholic church of course!

[ChadGore]

Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Chile to join the coalition of the willing?

[steveegg]

Fire bombing the building that contains the embassies of Sweeden, Denmark, and Chile is a terroist act.

It's also an act of war.

[El Gato]

Sweden, Denmark and Chile. Are all these countries NATO?

No, only Denmark. Chile is probably somewhat hostile to the US, they just installed a new left wing government. Sweden is historically neutral, (for the last couple of centuries that is) but it's a well armed neutrality.

[backhoe]

Everything I have found about The War of the 12 Cartoons ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:

Everything I have found about The War of the 12 Cartoons ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:

[JohnBovenmyer]

Sweden, Denmark and Chile. Are all these countries NATO?

The Swedes have been neutral for a long time so didn't join. There are Chile is about as far from North Atlantic as one can get, for that matter there are no Latin or South American NATO members. Just the Danish embassy at the first fire bombing and the Norwegian embassy about 4 miles away at the second fire bombing count towards NATO assaults. There are at least reports that the police tried to prevent the second assault. The loss of life is thankfully smaller, but diplomatically this is the same as the bombings of our African embassies under Clinton. Under NATO an attack on one member should count as an attack on all members.