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Blasts rock Baghdad
CNN ^ | November 4, 2003 | CNN

Posted on 11/04/2003 10:45:24 AM PST by ejdrapes

Explosions rock Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- For a second night, three loud explosions shook central Baghdad on Tuesday after an apparent rocket attack on a coalition compound.

An Iraqi guard told CNN's John Raedler that one projectile exploded on the grounds of the former palace of Saddam Hussein. The palace is being used as headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Witnesses said that smoke could be seen rising from inside the compound.

There have been no reports of casualties, and it is unclear if there was any damage in the compound -- which CNN's Baghdad Bureau Chief Jane Arraf said was the size of a small city.

The explosions rocked several nearby buildings, including the Palestine Hotel, where many journalists stay, said CNN's Matthew Chance.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cpahq; iraq

1 posted on 11/04/2003 10:45:24 AM PST by ejdrapes
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To: ejdrapes
Looks like we may need to do some of the same things we've been telling the Israelis not to do.

Hmmmmm

2 posted on 11/04/2003 10:46:57 AM PST by Principled
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To: Principled
Field test Moab!
3 posted on 11/04/2003 10:47:35 AM PST by RiflemanSharpe (An American for a more socially and fiscally conservation America!)
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To: ejdrapes
This Ramadan has been brought to you by the

©Religion of Peace

Additional funding by the House of Saud.
4 posted on 11/04/2003 10:52:20 AM PST by COBOL2Java (If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading this in English, thank a soldier.)
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To: ejdrapes
I wish the media would get an iota of perspective. It's incredibly easy to fire a mortar or set off a bomb - and every time it does the media starts running around in circles like a bunch of chicken littles. And the worst thing is that they aren't even the least bit ashamed of broadcasting their own cowardice to the entire world. "Lions! and tigers! and bears! Oh My!"
5 posted on 11/04/2003 11:01:55 AM PST by SolutionsOnly
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To: SolutionsOnly; ejdrapes
They scury out of their hotels and back to safety like cockroaches,manning their laptops,says a newly returned soldier on R and R who is not pleased with the lack of reporting on the successes in Iraq.!
6 posted on 11/04/2003 11:11:51 AM PST by MEG33
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To: SolutionsOnly
But in this case, they are firing (successfully) at the very heart of our operations in Iraq. You might take that lightly, but I for one do not.
7 posted on 11/04/2003 11:19:12 AM PST by huck von finn
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To: SolutionsOnly
That's CNN for you; their whole Iraq coverage is slanted
toward this being another Viet Nam.
8 posted on 11/04/2003 12:54:10 PM PST by upcountryhorseman
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To: huck von finn
More people will be murdered in Chicago tonight than die in Iraq - Right smack in the heart of America. Therefore it must follow that Chicago is more dangerous than Iraq. You must have a very, very heavy heart.
9 posted on 11/04/2003 4:15:06 PM PST by SolutionsOnly
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