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Baghdad Sheraton hit by RPG
Fox News | 11/20/03

Posted on 11/20/2003 8:42:17 PM PST by TexKat

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1 posted on 11/20/2003 8:42:17 PM PST by TexKat
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To: TexKat
FNC ALERT
Bagdad Sherton Hotel was hit by an RPG on the six floor

2 posted on 11/20/2003 8:43:03 PM PST by Mo1
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To: TexKat
BTTT
3 posted on 11/20/2003 8:44:22 PM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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Steve Centani of Fox News is reporting live from the top of the hotel, where the FN crew is staying. He just said that this is another attack on a soft target. He said that they have "scared the UN out, scared the Red Cross out,now they are trying to scare the journalists out.....we have decided to stay and report from the roof here."
4 posted on 11/20/2003 8:44:38 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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I am watching too...I am thinking Whooopty do!

Its like throwing a dirt clod at a battleship. All you get is a loud bang and falling glass and you get 15 mins of fame.

Now if the hotel was hit by a 81mm, 105mm, 203mm piece of ARTILLERY, that would be big news...you can clean out entire rooms with that ordinance.

But right now, I think this was nothing to be really concerned about.

5 posted on 11/20/2003 8:45:27 PM PST by DCBryan1
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Israeli media reports it hit the "Palestine" Hotel. No reports of injuries, light damage to the hotel.

Another source reports it was the Sherton.

A final source says 2 explosions were heard.

6 posted on 11/20/2003 8:45:28 PM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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No reports of injuries
7 posted on 11/20/2003 8:45:55 PM PST by Mo1
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To: TexKat
This and the flurry of downed choppers over the last month should have red flags going up all over the Pentagon.

TACTICS, TACTICS, TACTICS and TACTICS.

Our's are wrong, and they need to be fixed YESTERDAY.

Either retaliate (and when I say retaliate - I mean wipe out whole city blocks in the surrounding areas where the choppers took off from) ~OR~ develop new tactics.

If I were in command, civilians would be evacuated from all building (homes, stores, businesses) within RPG range of helopads.

And anyone caught giving or recieving blood money for killing or attempting to kill an American would have one way out - the FIRING SQUAD. And, I'd make the Iraqis be the ones pulling the triggers.

This calls for new tactics.

8 posted on 11/20/2003 8:46:04 PM PST by Happy2BMe (2004 - Who WILL the TERRORISTS vote for? - - Not George W. Bush, THAT'S for sure!)
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I hope no others follow.
9 posted on 11/20/2003 8:46:09 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe (Take my advice; I don't use it anyway.)
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Damn! Why can't these soldiers of Mohammed and their RPG's be rounded up, tied together, and detonated in the city square?

10 posted on 11/20/2003 8:46:30 PM PST by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: yonif
So two hotels were hit????
11 posted on 11/20/2003 8:46:35 PM PST by Mo1
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To: Happy2BMe
I support what the IDF has stated months ago and that is the US army should use armored vehicles.
12 posted on 11/20/2003 8:47:35 PM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: TexKat
Fox News reporting

Yeah, but....what about Jacko?

13 posted on 11/20/2003 8:47:54 PM PST by eddie willers
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There may be some confusion about what the hotel is called. I believe that Steve Centani said in his original report that it might not be known as the "Sheraton".
14 posted on 11/20/2003 8:48:42 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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I am watching Fox now and this one reporter was describing an RPG and said they could put on their shoulder and fire a half a mile away. Do they have that kind of range?
15 posted on 11/20/2003 8:49:34 PM PST by microgood (They will all die......most of them.)
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I like your recommendations.

Please send them to Rummy.
16 posted on 11/20/2003 8:49:41 PM PST by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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But right now, I think this was nothing to be really concerned about

I'm not so sure. The terrorists seem to be very busy as the last week of Ramadan winds down.

17 posted on 11/20/2003 8:50:44 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe (Take my advice; I don't use it anyway.)
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To: TexKat
FN's Dana Lewis, Steve Harrigan are staying at this Baghdad Sheraton that was hit by an RPG ~ 7 am, early morning.
 
RPG came through glass ceiling of the atrium - around 16th -17th floor, pieces of glass ceiling fell into the lobby ~ no reports of injuries.
 
The main CPA compound is across from this Sheraton.

18 posted on 11/20/2003 8:51:34 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl (If SH is behind the current activities it will be the 4th war that he's lost in 20 yrs.~Gen K *11/18)
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Thanks for the post, I was watching Lou Dobbs on CNN(the only thing worth watching). They just broke in right now.
19 posted on 11/20/2003 8:53:28 PM PST by StriperSniper (The "mainstream" media is a left bank oxbow lake.)
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Hopefully not too much falling glass. Other than with a direct hit, there is a way to protect it.
20 posted on 11/20/2003 8:53:41 PM PST by doug from upland (Why aren't the Clintons living out their remaining years on Alcatraz?)
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