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| Iraqi Insurgents Attack Freight Train | |
| 2003-10-30 | |
Insurgents attacked a freight train with an improvised bomb Thursday, setting four containers on fire and setting off a spree of looting by residents. The attack occurred on a rail line four miles west of Fallujah against a train that carries freight, mostly for the U.S. military, from this city to Haditha, about 135 kilometers to the northwest. The engineer escaped injury and fled the scene. As soon as the flames subsided, local residents swarmed over the wreckage, carrying off computers, tents, bottled water and anything else they could carry away.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #9 You're right IS...... but then again who don't like a really good train wreck. They gave him his orders in Tikrit Iraqiii.. sayin Abdul you're way behind time..... This ain't '98 its old..... huuummmm. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-10-30 9:06:58 PM |
| #8 Think ya used enough dynamite there, Achmed? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-10-30 5:32:15 PM |
| #7 These are educated Iraqis. They've read books about Lawrence of Arabia, and want to repeat the train wrecks with themselves as the beneficiaries. |
| Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive 2003-10-30 4:19:16 PM |
| #6 Not much different than what happens near El Paso - minus the explosives. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2003-10-30 2:10:38 PM |
| #5 "Hey, Abdul, you said I could be Butch Cassidy this time!" "Shaddup and put the loot on the camel, al-Sundance!" Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2003-10-30 2:03:48 PM |
| #4 Next up: "Iraqi Insurgents Attack Rock." Or as the NYT will headline it: "Chaos in the Desert: Rocks Remain Insecure." |
| Posted by: Matt 2003-10-30 1:04:47 PM |
| #3 More like "bandits". Also, go find the engineer who survived without injury and ran away. Wonder if he was involved in the plan???? |
| Posted by: seafarious 2003-10-30 12:34:22 PM |
| #2 "Death to the infidel boxcars!" |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-10-30 12:28:10 PM |
| #1 I seem to remember insurgents as typically attacking opposing forces, instead of citizenry and infrastructure. How about calling them "idiots"? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-30 12:07:06 PM |