Blast Hits Iraqi Cinema, Causes Several Casualties

Yahooooooooo via Reuters ^ | 9/24/03

[areafiftyone]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A blast ripped through a cinema in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Wednesday, causing several casualties, local people said.

[areafiftyone]

Not much more info yet.

[VRWC_minion]

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 ?

[Truth666]

They were watching one of those porn movies that they had to wait so long for ...

[zarf]

The Reuters staff pops a few more champagne corks in orgasmic anticipation of heavy casualties.

[sam_paine]

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.

[Brian S]

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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.

[Brian S]

They were watching one of those porn movies that they had to wait so long for ...

You were right, according to this article. ;)

[sheik yerbouty]

What was showing? "Behind The Blue Mosque"? "Mohammed Does Mecca"?

[yonif]

ROFL

[mhking]

A bomb?

You mean "Gigli" was a bomb there, too?

[just mimi]

Police said a witness had told them the movie theater was showing a pornographic film

Right.

[RobbyS]

If they did this in New York it would be blamed on the Radical Right.

[Arpege92]

I bet Clinton loaned this pornograpy from his own collection!

[Jacob Kell]

Want to bet it's Islamists? Whether Wahhabis or Khomeinists they all share a antipathy towards cinema.