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Explosions have been reported on Monday at ammunition depot located at the military base in the Achinsk District of the Krasnoyarsk Region. "The explosion went off in an ammunition depot, evacuation is being carried out," a source in the region’s emergency services told TASS on Monday. A source in a local emergencies service told TASS that one serviceman died as a result of the blasts. However, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry has dismissed this information. Eight people have been injured, including two military officers, the local hospital informed TASS.

As leaders from France, Cyprus, Germany, US, Russia, and Ukraine drop tape-bombs of turmoil at one another, the following somewhat stunning clip suggests on the ground in Eastern Europe, other - far bigger - bombs are being lobbed... The somewhat mushroom-cloud-like explosion in Donetsk...

JINSA Online, October 27, 2004 October 27, 2004 JINSA Report #445 Normally Part II follows Part I, but we’re taking a break: “The Ammo Dump Story” We waited on the Iraqi ammo dump story because we knew there was more to it than the possibility that American soldiers stood watching idly while Iraqi looters carried off 378 TONS of high explosives with IAEA markings. By now you know that it was CBS’s plan to air the story on Sunday night, have it appear in the papers on Monday and wait for the “correction” - that the explosives were already gone...

The latest attempt by democrats and the old American media to blame Bush and the 101st Airborne for some "missing explosives" in Iraq 18 months ago is a blatant attempt at an October surprise. Beyond that, it's proof the pattern Kerry established after his Vietnam war service -- of smearing our troops to further his ambition -- has not changed over the decades. There is no credible evidence that our soldiers did not perform admirably at the Al Qa Qaa weapons facility in 2003. Kerry's current campaign based on lies proves what Vietnam vets and some military families have been...