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2005-10-24 Iraq
Palestine Hotel in Baghdad Hit by Car Bombs
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Posted by Steve 2005-10-24 11:49|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Breaking Good News

Jurnos get to witness feel quackmire close up. More Doom 5..4..3..
Posted by Red Dog 2005-10-24 12:23||   2005-10-24 12:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh gee, darn I feel bad about terrorist propegandists journalists dying and all...
Posted by mmurray821 2005-10-24 12:32||   2005-10-24 12:32|| Front Page Top

#3 What does the Spanish judge have to say? Will he be issuing arrest warrants soon? Wow. Imagine that, journos in trouble and no Americans involved. What's the Tranzi world coming to?
Posted by .com 2005-10-24 12:35||   2005-10-24 12:35|| Front Page Top

#4 This was clearly a CIA op. Who else would want to harm innocent journos bringing the truth of American oppression to the public.
Posted by Gloluting Thrairt4328 2005-10-24 12:38||   2005-10-24 12:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee AP news actually had a camera filming the explosion. What are the odds against that?
Posted by Grunter 2005-10-24 12:52||   2005-10-24 12:52|| Front Page Top

#6 If Mohammad will not go to the mountain [leave the bar at the Palestine], I guess the mountain must go to Mohammad [for their propaganda war feed]. Bad timing though as Wilma is upstaging their fireworks show.
Posted by Slomble Ulolung9962 2005-10-24 12:56||   2005-10-24 12:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Nothing inspires good quagmire talk better then some "war correspondent" getting blown off his or her bar stool.
Posted by tu3031 2005-10-24 13:22||   2005-10-24 13:22|| Front Page Top

#8 ROFL, *snort* tu!
Posted by .com 2005-10-24 13:24||   2005-10-24 13:24|| Front Page Top

#9 It's only "fair" that this happened after all.
Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-10-24 13:41||   2005-10-24 13:41|| Front Page Top

#10 including a cement-mixing truck packed with explosives

I saw this on "Mythbusters" a couple of weeks ago - you can get a serious boom out of a cement truck.
Posted by Thinese Shase1818 2005-10-24 13:48||   2005-10-24 13:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Grunter: Reports said first bomb tried to breach the outer blast wall, then more went off (two?) closer to the hotel. I would think that is why they have the later explosion on camera.
Posted by NYer4wot 2005-10-24 13:51||   2005-10-24 13:51|| Front Page Top

#12 CNN had two of them on their video. One looked like a car bomb on the other side of the square and the cement truck rammed a chain link gate (real secure) and went off inside one of the walls.
Posted by tu3031 2005-10-24 14:04||   2005-10-24 14:04|| Front Page Top

#13 On a historical note, the world's most bombed building is/was the Europa Hotel in Belfast. It was bombed a total of 40 something times. The Europa Hotel was where the journalists used to stay. Their need for copy and film at 11 creates an unholy alliance of comvemience with the terrorist's need for publicity.
Posted by phil_b 2005-10-24 14:13||   2005-10-24 14:13|| Front Page Top

#14 I love the smell of Ramadan. Makes me feel like a little kid again.
Posted by Shipman 2005-10-24 18:13||   2005-10-24 18:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Looked like the first car bomb breeched the outer concrete barrier. A second car bomb blew up on the other side of the compund. At that time, the cement truck drove through the breech caused by the first bomb. Then the truck encountered an inner concrete barrier where it then blew up. So the truck bomber never made it to the hotel.

So was it poor recon not taking the inner barrier into account, or a poor plan to breech the internal barrier?
Posted by ed 2005-10-24 19:29||   2005-10-24 19:29|| Front Page Top

#16 This is terrible. I feel a great deal of sympathy.

For the Iraqis.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2005-10-24 20:25|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2005-10-24 20:25|| Front Page Top

#17 Palestine Hotel boomed? Whoda thunk that!?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-10-24 20:50||   2005-10-24 20:50|| Front Page Top

#18 ed, it was reported everywhere, with dramatic film footage of the explosions and Our Brave Correspondent Showing Where He Was When The Attack Occurred. Mission accomplished, all concerned are satisfied (except for the ones who have to clean up the mess, of course).
Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-24 21:33||   2005-10-24 21:33|| Front Page Top

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