[Velveeta]

Cripes! Now that makes 4 of us from this thread alone!

Where do you live?

[freeperfromnj]

3 GE workers, 2 others killed in Baghdad

The Associated Press
6/14/2004, 9:23 a.m. ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Three General Electric employees and two security contractors were killed Monday in a fiery car bombing in central Baghdad, a company spokeswoman said.

The three killed worked for Granite Services Inc., a wholly-owned GE subsidiary, said Louise Binns, a GE spokeswoman in Brussels.

The two others killed were security contractors, Binns said.

"Nothing is more important than the safety of our employees and those supporting our efforts," Binns said in a statement. "We have taken extraordinary measures to keep them safe and we will continue to work with the Coalition Provisional Authority and Iraqi authorities to protect our people. We remain committed to the reconstruction of Iraq."

[bored at work]

Where do you live?

Pewaukee WI. Just north of Waukesha. . .

[ClaimToFame]

I have been a lurker on TM list since thread 2. I appreciate all of your efforts and want to thank each of you for your insight. I have become dependent on TM to stay informed. This is my first post to the list.

Last Friday (6/11) in the early morning around 1:30AM we heard a very loud boom with a brief flash of light. I was on the computer (freerepublic)and my husband and children were sleeping. The boom woke up everyone in the house. Just as my husband and I were dressing to go outside and take a look around we heard another very loud boom just like the first one and they were about 5 minutes apart. We went outside and our Thoroughbred horses were running around the paddock very frightened. We saw a few of our neighbors outside of their homes doing the same as we were. A few minutes later we heard sirens that seemed to stop a mile or so away. Then a police helicopter with a big search light started scanning our area. After about a half an hour it left. We went back inside and did not witness anything else out of the ordinary.

The boom sounded like what a very large transformer blowing out would if you were nearby. However there was no disruption to our power in the neighborhood. My husband said he thought it could have been a sonic type boom. We did not see anything in the news about it. We live in South Florida near Wellington/West Palm Beach.