[Mo1]

FNC ALERT
Bagdad Sherton Hotel was hit by an RPG on the six floor

[yonif]

BTTT

[Happy2BMe]

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.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I hope no others follow.

[eddie willers]

Fox News reporting

Yeah, but....what about Jacko?

[microgood]

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?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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.

[StriperSniper]

Thanks for the post, I was watching Lou Dobbs on CNN(the only thing worth watching). They just broke in right now.

[yonif]

Israeli media reports:

The mortars were fired from a donkey-cart. No injuries reported.

Maariv reports there are a few injured people.

Arutz 7 reports that a grenade was thrown at the hotel.

[Ex-Dem]

You think this might make the newsies realize that the Baathists/terrorists are the bad guys, not our troops?

Alright, that's probably giving them too much credit...

[MJY1288]

Thank God, It looks like no serious injuries in these latest attacks. the more ou warriors coduct operations like "Iron Hammer" the more we will see these attacks slow down. We are winning, it will just take a while for the Press to be forced to admit it and start reporting it

[Delta 21]

HA HA HA

I am laughing so hard!! It takes just a lil 'ol RPG to get all the propogandists a shakin in their boots!! The female mouthpiece I just got done laughing out load at the telivision was just about in tears and visibly .....well, how should I put it.....scared sh!tless.

The other one just talking about how the un and RedCross had been scared out of Baghdad.

You cant come up with stuff this good.

[claudiustg]

They hit with RPGs we respond with tanks and Apache helicopters. We're lucky there's no general uprising. The present level of violence will run it's course. I wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about the outcome. I believe we can master the situation at least adequately.

[FairOpinion]

Two explosions hit Baghdad hotel
Fri November 21, 2003 12:01 AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two explosions have rocked the Sheraton Hotel, used by many Western journalists and contractors, in central Baghdad, Reuters witnesses say.
The neighbouring Palestine Hotel also appeared to have been hit around the 16th or 17th floor, a Reuters witness said.

Sheraton hotel guests, who evacuated the building, saw shards of glass scattered across the lobby. They said several people were at least slightly injured.

At least two holes were punched in windows at the Sheraton, witnesses said. A security guard at a nearby building said he had seen a rocket or rocket-propelled grenade fly through the air towards the hotel.

The Sheraton, which still uses the name of the luxury hotel chain although it is no longer part of it, is located in a fortified compound along with the Palestine, which is also used by Western journalists and contractors.


http://www.reuters.co.uk/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=406917

[yonif]

Iraqi oil ministry building hit by rockets (Reuters)

[areafiftyone]

From Sky News:

Two explosions have rocked a hotel in the centre of Baghdad used by western journalists covering the aftermath of the Iraq war.

The Sheraton has been badly damaged by the blasts, thought to have been caused by attackers using at least one rocket-propelled grenade.

There are no firm details of casualties but it is reported some people have been slightly hurt.

The nearby Palestine Hotel and the Iraqi oil ministry are also thought to have been hit.

An attack against the Italian embassy was also thwarted after a homemade rocket launcher with 30 rockets linked to a timer and a battery was discovered and dismantled before it could be used.

Sky News correspondent David Bowden was asleep in the Sheraton hotel at the time - and was woken by the blasts.

He said the foyer of the building was "littered in debris." It has now been evacuated.

It is not known if journalists were the targets but this was possible, he pointed out.

He said the Sheraton was an obvious target "if anyone wants to deliver right to the front door of the world's journalists just how dangerous this place is."

Security at the hotel has been stepped up in recent weeks, with chicanes placed in the surrounding roads and troops backed by tanks on guard around the area.

Bowden added: "No suicide bomber could get in here with any kind of ease."

It was likely the attacks was intended to "put the frighteners on journalists and remind them no-one is safe in this place."

[pchuck]

At least it wasn't the Paris Hilton.