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2005-10-25 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2005-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 hostages are only good if someone wants them back...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-25 00:04|| 2005-10-25 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Using allies as hostages is never a smart move...

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-10-25 00:31|| 2005-10-25 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 LOL Frank! Very true!

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-10-25 05:31|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-10-25 05:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Personally, I gotta give a thumbs up to the "insurgents" for their "adapative abilities".

For a culture that barely exists without media attention, nothing gets more media attention than killing a journalist, especially a liberal one.

Posted by Phaviter Shainter2357 2005-10-25 07:31|| 2005-10-25 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 From Powerline...

The number of terrorists involved and the follow-on small arms attacks make it clear that the overall goal was to use suicide vehicle bombs to breach the security perimeter, then take over the hotel and hold the international guests as hostages. Instead, they failed to achieve those objectives and the attackers were killed.

If their intent was the make the journalists hostages, why does that not bother me? I mean they're insurgents fighting the good war as far as the journalists are concern. I'm sure the elite MSM would howl mainly because of the insurance costs that have kept so many of their top notch writers parked around the bar in the hotel. However, the thought of 'demands' being issued from the hotel by ~~terrorists~~ insurgents upon the threat of death to their best allies is just so amusing.

Posted by Claving Speart7152 2005-10-25 08:57|| 2005-10-25 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Turning on their allies? I wonder what the problem is. Perhaps we'll hear one side from the MSM.

Posted by Glaviter Sniling4952 2005-10-25 09:02|| 2005-10-25 09:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Fox had an interview with the specialist who dropped the cement truck driver and his captain (who looked about 15 - I'm getting old). The Captain said that if they were trying to take hostages they would have dismounts ready to storm the breach the explosions made. Since there were none, his opinion was that it was a straight out car bombing, albeit a complex one.

Posted by CRS">CRS 2005-10-25 09:07|| 2005-10-25 09:07|| Front Page Top

#8 CRS, did the Spc. confirm he shot the driver before the concrete truck blew up at the inner concertina wire barrier? I was wondering why the truck did not make it to the hotel before blowing up. (From an early vid, I mistakenly thought the inner barrier was concrete.)

Posted by ed 2005-10-25 09:27|| 2005-10-25 09:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Terrorists targeting journalists? Things must be going poorly if the terr's are turning on their own.

Posted by intrinsicpilot 2005-10-25 12:06|| 2005-10-25 12:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Iraqi Insurgents Target Journalists, but unfortunately miss.

Posted by gromgoru 2005-10-25 14:32|| 2005-10-25 14:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Ed, the Spc said he "dropped him" as he drove in following the first 2 explosions, and prevented the truck from making it through the holes blown by the earlier bombs. They also said that there were two rings of barriers, which prevented the trucks from getting close.

Posted by CRS">CRS 2005-10-25 14:46|| 2005-10-25 14:46|| Front Page Top

#12 OT - the Specialist looked about 35 or so, and the Captain looked like a teenager. When they showed them on-screen, I thought to myself, "That Captain looks like he's been around." Then the reporter asked the Specialist to describe what happened and the "old" guy started talking. Just goes to show you can't judge a book by it's cover.

Posted by CRS">CRS 2005-10-25 14:50|| 2005-10-25 14:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Did you see the explosion made? They captured it on film on Fox News ran it. It was one hell of a bang.

Posted by Charles 2005-10-25 15:18|| 2005-10-25 15:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Always entertaining when the bad guys start eating their own.

Pass the popcorn. :-D

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