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Blast Hits Iraqi Cinema, Causes Several Casualties
Yahooooooooo via Reuters ^
| 9/24/03
Posted on 09/24/2003 7:05:54 AM PDT by areafiftyone
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A blast ripped through a cinema in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Wednesday, causing several casualties, local people said.
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: cinemablast; iraq; mosul
Not much more info yet.
To: areafiftyone
Cinema ? I thought these folks were without electric power and were subisting on starvation diets. They have enough electric power to spare to run movies and they have time to watch them in between foraging for food ?
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posted on
09/24/2003 7:13:17 AM PDT
by
VRWC_minion
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To: VRWC_minion
They were watching one of those porn movies that they had to wait so long for ...
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posted on
09/24/2003 7:17:32 AM PDT
by
Truth666
To: VRWC_minion
The Reuters staff pops a few more champagne corks in orgasmic anticipation of heavy casualties.
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posted on
09/24/2003 7:18:16 AM PDT
by
zarf
(..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
To: VRWC_minion
I thought these folks were without electric power and were subisting on starvation diets. That's the impression the libs would have you take away. But I've actually seen reports (though deemphasized) that power is substantially restored everywhere EXCEPT Baghdad area. Mosul is relatively well off.
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posted on
09/24/2003 7:30:57 AM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: areafiftyone
MORE...
Two Killed by Grenade Blast in Iraqi Cinema
Wed September 24, 2003 10:21 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A hand grenade blast ripped through a cinema in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, killing two people and wounding 20, police said.
Police said a witness had told them the movie theater was showing a pornographic film when the grenade exploded. Islamic militants have attacked some cinemas in postwar Iraq for showing movies they regard as immoral.
"A grenade exploded inside the cinema. Twenty people were injured, two were killed," said Mohammed Sadiq, an officer at the police station nearest the cinema told Reuters by telephone.
Shopkeepers in the same street as the cinema said they saw about 20 people carried out of the building, some with very serious wounds. The blast smashed windows in the cinema but appeared to have caused little structural damage.
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posted on
09/24/2003 7:46:21 AM PDT
by
Brian S
(Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem...RWReagan)
To: Truth666
They were watching one of those porn movies that they had to wait so long for ... You were right, according to this article. ;)
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posted on
09/24/2003 7:47:52 AM PDT
by
Brian S
(Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem...RWReagan)
To: Brian S
What was showing? "Behind The Blue Mosque"? "Mohammed Does Mecca"?
To: sheik yerbouty
ROFL
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posted on
09/24/2003 8:41:03 AM PDT
by
yonif
("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
To: areafiftyone
A bomb? You mean "Gigli" was a bomb there, too?
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posted on
09/24/2003 8:42:28 AM PDT
by
mhking
(Don't mess in the affairs of dragons; For you are crunchy, and taste great with ketchup...)
To: Brian S
Police said a witness had told them the movie theater was showing a pornographic film
Right.
To: just mimi
If they did this in New York it would be blamed on the Radical Right.
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posted on
09/24/2003 2:09:05 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(nd)
To: Truth666
I bet Clinton loaned this pornograpy from his own collection!
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posted on
09/24/2003 5:56:43 PM PDT
by
Arpege92
To: All
Want to bet it's Islamists? Whether Wahhabis or Khomeinists they all share a antipathy towards cinema.
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