Blasts heard near Baghdad airport

[DoYouEverWonder]

new.com.au


February 23, 2004

EXPLOSIONS have been heard in Baghdad following a weekend of trouble that saw an oil pipeline sabotaged in southern Iraq and deadly violence in the north.

A series of blasts were heard in the vicinity of the capital's airport, but the cause was not immediately known, said a US airforce spokeswoman at the facility, which is used as a military base, today.

Meanwhile, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned on his way to the Gulf that al-Qaeda was sowing seeds of destruction in Iraq.

(1st reported by Mari333 in GD)



A weekend of trouble in the north? What trouble? There has been nothing on the news wires. Now they're hearing explosions at the Bagdad Airport? Rummie is in the region. I wonder if the Iraqis are giving him a special welcome?

[wellstone_democrat]

1. But its al queda NOT the Iraquis! Rum head says so!

He doesn't have a friggin' clue who exactly did what this week but he immediately knows its not unhappy average Iraquis, its Al Queda!

He's like got super powers doesn't he. Super cool!

[Mari333]

2. Rummy wont get hurt

the soldiers will.

[osaMABUSh]

3. Haven't heard a word in the 'mainstream' media

I guess after losing 500+ American soldiers is takes mutliple American deaths or dozens of Iraqi deaths in one incident to dent the news cycle.

[NeoConsSuck]

5. And you won't hear it..

Here's my take on corporate media for Sunday Feb. 22nd:

A very recent poll showed Kerry with a 12 point lead over the chimp. Which has corporate media scared shit. So how does CNN do it's part to extinguish this 12 point lead? I noticed today they kept the Nader news as the lead story on CNN.Com. They just removed it (after 9 hours), to be replaced with a story about John Edwards.

Kerry? Kerry who? Trouble in Iraq? What?

Walter Isaacson is such a transparent piece of shit.

[Kagemusha]

4. It reads that...

"The United States wants to get the handover done by June 30th to deny the Democrats an issue."

What the...?

[rustydog]

6. Rummy lied to get this war, why would he tell the truth now?

Gutless bastard needs to be in cuffs at the Hauge shortly after Jan 2005.

[dawgman]

7. here is some news of recent violence in the north

Oil pipeline attacked in southern Iraq (and brief account of northern friction)
http://sify.com/news/international/fullstory.php?id=13398222

Saboteurs have frequently targeted oil pipelines in oil-rich northern Iraq, where a gun battle on Saturday night left one Iraqi dead and another seriously wounded when they attacked the home of a police chief, a police officer said.

An Iraqi civilian was also killed Sunday morning in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul by a makeshift bomb planted beside a road used by military convoys.

And police said two bodyguards were wounded when unidentified gunmen opened fire in the city, while in Baghdad three Iraqi policemen were wounded in a bomb blast.

Also in the Iraqi capital, two suspects carrying grenades were arrested during a funeral attended by hundreds of people paying their respects to a Sunni Muslim cleric assassinated late Saturday, a local sheikh said.

Sheikh Thamer Suleiman al-Zari was shot dead on the doorstep of his Baghdad home by unknown assailants.

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. They hardly even report the US deaths anymore

Much less any of these.

[Mari333]

8. I go here to get all my news

I had to pay but its up to date. I need to know whats going on. I guess I have this horrible fear everyday that some car will be driving up in our driveway and it will be the worst..and then sometimes I wonder whether , when the phone rings, its bad news..and then I start to think too much..but I want to know whats going on all the time all day long so Im prepared.
http://www.einnews.com/
If I relied on the US news media, it means nothing. None of them ever cared, and they dont now. They are comfortable cowards.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

9. Working the news cycle, insurgents aim for Monday's headlines.

A tactic they no doubt learned from this cabal of spinners.

I'd hate to be in Iraq on a Monday.

Is it bad enough for the White House to hire another sniper and threaten the Senate with poisen? They usually go that route...