Breaking news: Explosions reported in Casablanca-Morocco Says at Least 20 Dead in Car Bombs Attacks

http://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | 5/16/2003 | Foxnews

[Normal4me]

RABAT (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed in four bomb attacks -- three of them car bombs -- in Morocco's commercial capital Casablanca on Friday night, the official MAP news agency said.

The car bomb attacks targeted the Belgian consulate, a Jewish community center and the Hotel Safir, located in the old heart of the city center.

[ChadGore]

Are we going to freak out every time some kid sets off an M80 ?

[Dog]

fyi...

[martin_fierro]

"Of all the hotels in all the world, she had to bomb mine."

[Heartlander2]

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2761031

Several Blasts Heard in Moroccan City of Casablanca

Fri May 16, 2003 07:18 PM ET

RABAT (Reuters) - Several blasts were heard on Friday night in the Moroccan business capital of Casablanca, security sources said.

"We're not sure yet of the location of the blasts," a senior security source told Reuters by phone from Casablanca.

A resident said one blast was around the Hotel Sophia located in the Arab heart of the city center. There was no immediate report of casualties.

[tubebender]

Ricks Cafe ???

[Normal4me]

Well, I guess Reuters thought it was worthty enough to put out over the wires.

[StriperSniper]

Foxnews reporting

Did I hear him say he got that from Reuters?

[wimpycat]

LOL!

Not that this is funny, mind you. But I was secretly wondering when the first Casablanca quote would surface.

For all you geographically challenged folks, Casablanca is in Morocco...I'm pretty sure.

[aristeides]

WMAL: explosions at U.S. and Belgian embassies in Morocco. Belgian?

[doosee]

Round up all the usual suspects..

[Dog]

What???

[Dog]

CNN just reported 4 explosions...

[Revolting cat!]

"I'm shocked! Shocked!"

[Heartlander2]

90 minutes old. 4 car bombs ripped through downtown - several dead; no count on dead/injured yet. As per CNN.

[Normal4me]

I think they all get their breaking news via Reuters or AP?

[cmsgop]

Thanks for update

[JimVT]

Somebody musta asked oSAMa to play it again!

Sorry, I couldn't help myself

[Bobby777]

Morocco

I've been wondering when Morocco would enter the news ... awfully close to Algeria where Islamic terrorism was rampant in the mid- to late-1990's ... aye carumba ...