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CNN Office Damaged by Bomb Debris
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Posted on 10/19/2001 8:31:13 PM PDT by CommiesOut
  
   | CNN Office Damaged by Bomb Debris Fri, Oct 19, 2001 11:12 AM PDT
 
    
 
     LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - CNN is certainly right in the middle of all the action. The cable news network's workspace in Kandahar, Afghanistan was hit with debris after U.S. forces apparently blew up a moving vehicle nearby in its efforts to rid the world of terrorism, according to Variety.  A couple CNN employees and several Al-Jazeera employees were working in the building at the time. No one was hurt, although CNN declined to comment on how many employees worked in the office.  Following heavy U.S. bombing of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, everyone in the office had sought safety in a nearby ditch. When what appeared to be a moving vehicle exploded near the building, the offices' windows, doors and one wall were all blown out.  The office had previously been occupied by CNN correspondent Nic Robertson, until he was forced out of Taliban-controlled territory earlier this month. Now in Pakistan, Robertson reported on the attack for CNN, saying his colleagues felt the ground shake beneath them.  The employees' identities have been kept confidential for their safety, but CNN said none of them are Westerners.  It remains unclear if the staffers will be able to continue to work out of the office. 
     
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To: CommiesOut
    Damn, we missed again! Rumsfeld will be *furious*!!
To: CommiesOut
    Did we rehire those guys who hit the Chinese embassy?
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posted on 
10/19/2001 8:34:49 PM PDT
by 
relee
 
To: CommiesOut
    Where's Peter Arnett when you need him?
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posted on 
10/19/2001 8:42:05 PM PDT
by 
Tom Pain
 
To: CommiesOut
    hmmmmmm not their day is it.......lol
To: CommiesOut
    We'll have to try again with maybe a bunker-buster.
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posted on 
10/19/2001 8:45:39 PM PDT
by 
Larry381
 
To: CommiesOut
    Ooh! Ooh! Debris! Debris! Waaaaaaaah.
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posted on 
10/19/2001 8:45:54 PM PDT
by 
Shermy
 
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: CommiesOut
    My latest "favorite stupid question asked by a CNN anchor" came tonight from Aaron Brown. While discussing the US Special Ops activities with some retired general, he asked, "So it would appear that they are targeting either people or things, is that correct?"
 That brought the following response from the general, "Well, ahhh, there's not much else left."
 The only thing funnier would have been if the general had said, "No, Aaron, I don't think they're after people or things. I think they'll probably target nothing at all, bonehead!"
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posted on 
10/19/2001 8:48:38 PM PDT
by 
blake6900
 
To: CommiesOut
    Damned outdated CIA maps!
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posted on 
10/19/2001 8:49:02 PM PDT
by 
hove
 
To: CommiesOut
    Oh, if we thought they were whiners before -- we ain't seen nothing yet! 
 WHAAAAAAAAAAAA, we got our windows broken!
To: WileyCoyote22
    lol or Conspriacy News Network.....
To: CommiesOut
    We missed Amonopour! Damn that war slut, she won't get away next time!
To: CommiesOut
    Too bad some of this "debris" wasn't in the form of a 500 pound bomb landing between peter "I love saddam"arnett's eyebrows. Remember bernie hiding under the bed in Bagdad?
To: CommiesOut
    A lot worse will probably happen if they interview bin Laden. Let them just try a live interview. Kaboom!
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posted on 
10/19/2001 8:51:36 PM PDT
by 
virgil
 
To: CommiesOut
    Only damaged? We missed!
To: CommiesOut
    Hmmm..
Interesting that CNN shares a building with Al-Jazeera. If OBL comes by for an interview with them ya think CNN will tell?
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posted on 
10/19/2001 8:53:17 PM PDT
by 
mafree
 
To: CommiesOut
    Weren't all foreign journalists thrown out by the Taliban? CNN must be local.
Comment #19 Removed by Moderator
To: relee
    Did we rehire those guys who hit the Chinese embassy? Obviously not- the current ones missed their communist propaganda wing target.
 
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posted on 
10/19/2001 8:54:48 PM PDT
by 
piasa
 
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