Iraqi Strikes Disrupt International Calls

[DoYouEverWonder]

AP Wire

March 3, 2004, 4:28 AM EST

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Three rockets struck a major telephone exchange Wednesday, knocking out international phone connections for much of the country only days after the system was put back in service, officials said.

One Iraqi worker was killed and another injured.

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Twelve new telephone exchanges in Baghdad were set up last month, replacing the ones destroyed in the U.S.-led invasion, enabling the Iraqi Telephone and Post Co. provide service for 240,000 lines in and around Baghdad.

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The missile attacks came a day after simultaneous suicide bombings on Shiite Muslim shrines in the capital and the holy city of Karbala killed hundreds of people.


Iraq is starting to remind me of my old boat. A giant hole that you pour money into.

[truthspeaker]

1. Big difference between Iraq and your boat:

You didn't steal your boat (I presume).

[Spentastic]

2. Nearly

It'd be more like a boat that you paid for, someone then stole and leased back to to you. Then started charging you for repairs and turning up every couple of weeks and knocking holes in it with a big hammer.

Someone makes money from those telephone exchanges being blown up.

[Barrett808]

3. Yesterday and today must be that "uptick in violence" Sanchez predicted

I'm sure there will be a "downtick" on July 1st.