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Explosions rock Baghdad, TV goes off the air
Reuters
Posted on 03/25/2003 1:05:36 PM PST by kattracks
Explosions rock Baghdad, TV goes off the air
BAGHDAD, March 25 (Reuters) - Large explosions rocked Baghdad late on Tuesday and Iraqi television went off air as the first blast struck the capital.
Reuters correpondent Samia Nakhoul said several large explosions were heard and televisions in one hotel where journalists were staying immediately went black.
An official at Iraq's television station blamed a "technical problem in the transmitters" for the blackout.
The televisions remained off the air near midnight.
At least three powerful blasts rocked the city centre, an area where the television and radio headquarters and transmitters are located.
The television transmitters normally beam programmes, including news conferences by the Iraqi leadership, to a large part of the city. Iraqi radio continued broadcasting.
Baghdad was hit by repeated air strikes on Tuesday, many of them centred on locations to the east of the city where members of Iraq's Republican Guard were believed to be dug in to defend the city from U.S. ground forces approaching from the south.
03/25/03 15:55 ET
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: battleforbaghdad; embeddedreport; warlist
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To: al_c
Damn!!I was about to get that hummus recipe on "Cooking With Achmed".
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:53:08 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.)
To: kattracks
An official at Iraq's television station blamed a "technical problem in the transmitters" for the blackout. That'll learn 'em to use Microsoft's products for mission critical applications!
122
posted on
03/25/2003 1:53:49 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Could you pretty pretty please think of the possiblity of changing your tagline?)
It's about Time!
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:54:37 PM PST
by
McGruff
(The liberation of IRAQ is underway.)
To: kattracks
It's about damn time!!! Cut all that anti-American crap and let them tune into radio-free America.
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:54:43 PM PST
by
Shaka
To: nicmarlo
That's quite a "Funky Chicken" dance you're doin' there, Nic ! :O) . . .
125
posted on
03/25/2003 1:55:07 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: Mike Darancette
Iraqi television went off air as the first blast struck the capital. Daschle: "Im saddened... Saddened that the propaganda machine is being attacked..."
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:55:19 PM PST
by
smith288
(Visit my gallery http://www.ejsmithweb.com/fr/hollywood/hollywood.php)
To: kattracks
To: MeeknMing
LOL!
To: HenryLeeII
Let's not forget PBS! Yes, time to DEFUND PBS!
To: FreeTheHostages
God love them nerds...snicker..snicker. They needed a "real" mission to accomplish.
130
posted on
03/25/2003 1:56:35 PM PST
by
Shaka
To: LayoutGuru2
Any chance we could get Saddam to change the lightbulb on the antanna??
Pray for GW and Our Troops
131
posted on
03/25/2003 1:58:05 PM PST
by
bray
To: kattracks
To: kattracks
Say, is this the first time since 1954 that Dick Clark has been off the air?!
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:58:25 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Could you pretty pretty please think of the possiblity of changing your tagline?)
To: tuna_battle_slight_return
This means no more "Iraqi Idol"
LOL! Send that to Leno.
134
posted on
03/25/2003 1:58:54 PM PST
by
Dane
To: freedomlover
YOU HAVE NO TV
MAKE YOUR TIME
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:59:16 PM PST
by
Sender
To: Lee Heggy
"I want my AL-TV!"
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posted on
03/25/2003 2:00:45 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(God Bless and keep safe our troops.)
To: al_c
I think that we wanted to give them a chance to say, like the great Chick Hearn,
Saddam's in the refrigerator, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard, and the jellooooooooooooo's jigglin...
To: AppyPappy
Damn!!I was about to get that hummus recipe on "Cooking With Achmed".ROTFLOL--is that the show that's on after "Trading Spaces: Saddam Hussein and Chemical Ali bring new spring colors to each other's bunkers. Join them for the fun with designers Vern Yip, Hilda Santo Thomas, and carpenter Amy Wynn."
138
posted on
03/25/2003 2:04:37 PM PST
by
RooRoobird14
("Hillary's mouth and ankles are weapons of mass revulsion")
To: Howlin
Just cause your granma said that, does that make you a saint??? it shows me that she learned otherwise & that she may not be worth quoting...
To: maxamillion
Who said anything about me being a saint. I think you missed the point.
140
posted on
03/25/2003 2:06:08 PM PST
by
Howlin
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