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Breaking news: Explosions reported in Casablanca-Morocco Says at Least 20 Dead in Car Bombs Attacks
http://www.foxnews.com/ ^
| 5/16/2003
| Foxnews
Posted on 05/16/2003 4:30:10 PM PDT by Normal4me
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:36:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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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.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: casablanca; moroccobombing; whybelgium
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posted on
05/16/2003 4:30:10 PM PDT
by
Normal4me
To: Normal4me
Are we going to freak out every time some kid sets off an M80 ?
2
posted on
05/16/2003 4:31:22 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(It's all an Amish plot)
To: Angelus Errare
fyi...
3
posted on
05/16/2003 4:31:53 PM PDT
by
Dog
(LOST: Beloved Pet answers to the name QUAGMIRE if found call Howell Raines lost since Afghanistan.)
To: Normal4me
"Of all the hotels in all the world, she had to bomb mine."
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posted on
05/16/2003 4:32:09 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: Normal4me
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.
To: Normal4me
Ricks Cafe ???
6
posted on
05/16/2003 4:32:34 PM PDT
by
tubebender
(.)
To: ChadGore
Well, I guess Reuters thought it was worthty enough to put out over the wires.
7
posted on
05/16/2003 4:33:19 PM PDT
by
Normal4me
To: Normal4me
Foxnews reportingDid I hear him say he got that from Reuters?
8
posted on
05/16/2003 4:33:23 PM PDT
by
StriperSniper
(Frogs are for gigging)
To: martin_fierro
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.
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posted on
05/16/2003 4:33:46 PM PDT
by
wimpycat
('Nemo me impune lacessit')
To: Normal4me
WMAL: explosions at U.S. and Belgian embassies in Morocco. Belgian?
To: tubebender
Round up all the usual suspects..
11
posted on
05/16/2003 4:34:31 PM PDT
by
doosee
To: aristeides
What???
12
posted on
05/16/2003 4:35:37 PM PDT
by
Dog
(LOST: Beloved Pet answers to the name QUAGMIRE if found call Howell Raines lost since Afghanistan.)
To: aristeides
CNN just reported 4 explosions...
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posted on
05/16/2003 4:36:15 PM PDT
by
Dog
(LOST: Beloved Pet answers to the name QUAGMIRE if found call Howell Raines lost since Afghanistan.)
To: Normal4me
"I'm shocked! Shocked!"
14
posted on
05/16/2003 4:36:44 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Subvert the conspiracy of inanimate objects!)
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: Dog
90 minutes old. 4 car bombs ripped through downtown - several dead; no count on dead/injured yet. As per CNN.
To: StriperSniper
I think they all get their breaking news via Reuters or AP?
To: Dog
Thanks for update
18
posted on
05/16/2003 4:37:35 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
(Has anyone seen my Schwab ?)
To: martin_fierro
Somebody musta asked oSAMa to play it again!
Sorry, I couldn't help myself
19
posted on
05/16/2003 4:39:38 PM PDT
by
JimVT
To: aristeides
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 ...
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posted on
05/16/2003 4:39:42 PM PDT
by
Bobby777
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