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To: oldbrowser

If it was projectile delivered ordnance, there would probably have been gaping holes in the tables from shrapnel coming DOWN on them. The only damaged tables seem to be in the immediate blast area (which I assume to be generally under the instant skylight in the tent roof).

This would suggest that most of the frag was going HORIZONTALLY, as it would from a ground or waist-level blast.

Most of the casualties were probably secondary to fragmentation, consistant with a placed / IED weapon.

That's a lot of casualties from a body-borne bomb, but in a target rich environment like that (or a crowded Israeli Bar or Resturant) not unheard of. The MO stinks of HAMAAS, whom we are pretty sure are operating TDY in Iraq these days.

I will not be surprised if there is a connection.

FOX News is saying a "rocket" may have been fired from "miles away".... I still vote for an inside snuck-in IED.


45 posted on 12/21/2004 12:05:01 PM PST by Uncle Jaque (Vigilance!)
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To: Uncle Jaque
FOX News is saying a "rocket" may have been fired from "miles away".... I still vote for an inside snuck-in IED.

I was curious about this. If the rocket was launched from outside the compound, certainly some co ordination with 'people' inside the compound was needed. Those Iraqis should be kept out of coalition facilities for now. I am sure there are sleepers passing themselves off as friendlies. Coalition lives are worth too much to risk in this way. Besides, it is such a gigantic psychological victory for the terrorists when this happens.
46 posted on 12/21/2004 12:14:05 PM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus to his sons)
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