AP News Alert: Explosion and gunfire on a main Baghdad street...

[Fridays Child]

This is just breaking. No other information, yet.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/APNEWSALERT?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=customwire.htm

Sorry about the subject line, mods.

[Carla in Ca]

1. When is this nightmare going to end?!

[Bluebear]

2. 8 dead, 50 wounded at Green Zone entrance

[Fridays Child]

3. Here's more...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=customwire.htm

This is why al Firdos Square was devoid of traffic except for emergency and military vehicles.

[Bluebear]

4. Good gravy will this never end?

[grasswire]

5. the firdos square web cam looks calm now

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/bagCam.html

[Bluebear]

6. Only FOX would have a Baghdad webcam...

Here is what they post on it if there's trouble....

[grasswire]

7. it really fascinates me...

...to watch that. It's so odd to watch a man cross the square on a bicycle, him not having any idea that someone half a world away is watching him in real time. The global peep window is boggling.

[Fridays Child]

8. It's unusual to see so many helicopters fly within the camera's view.

Just saw three southbound and one northbound, in the last few minutes.

[Fridays Child]

9. UPDATE: Ten dead...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=customwire.htm

[leftchick]

10. Looks like The Target was US Paid Mercenaries,,,,,

A foreign national is evacuated soon after a car bomb ripped through Saadoun street in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday Oct. 4, 2004. The bomb targeted two four-wheel drives carrying foreign nationals and the casualty figure is unknown. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/iraq_dc

<snip>


In the first attack in Baghdad, a car bomb blew up near one of the entrances to the heavily fortified Green Zone, and close to an Iraqi National Guard recruitment post, killing at least 10 people and wounding 70, doctors and witnesses said.


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A second bomb, about 30 minutes later, shook buildings in the center of the city and sent thick clouds of black smoke pouring into the air above one of several hotels used by foreign contractors and workers.


Witnesses said the blast occurred as a U.S. military convoy was passing down one of Baghdad's major thoroughfares, in front of the Baghdad Hotel, a building used by U.S. government personnel and contractors.


It was not immediately clear if there were any dead or wounded -- U.S. troops sealed off the area and helicopters patrolled the skies above. However, a source at Iraq (news - web sites)'s Interior Ministry said he feared there were high casualties



A foreign security personnel, left, shoots at suspected insurgents soon after a car bomb ripped through Saadoun street in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday Oct. 4, 2004. The bomb targeted two four-wheel drives carrying foreign nationals and the casualty figure is unknown. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

[Moderator]

11. I'm going to lock this

Although this thread is older, since the headline is not the same as the link, and much newer and more comprehensive articles are out now, I think it is best to lock this one and continue here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x882300

Thanks MaryPat...hope you understand.