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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: gulfcoast6
"Yeah, three of them were seen leaving at a high rate of speed on foot towards the river." Toby, You're funny.
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03/25/2003 3:19:32 PM PST
by
blam
To: kattracks
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posted on
03/25/2003 3:28:41 PM PST
by
Paul Ross
(From the State Looking Forward to Global Warming! Let's Drown France!)
To: kattracks
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posted on
03/25/2003 3:32:29 PM PST
by
Fractal Trader
(Free Republic Energized - - The power of Intelligence on the Internet! Checked by Correkt Spel (TM))
To: maxamillion
Perhaps you should stay out of conversations you don't understand. Obviously it went right over your head.
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posted on
03/25/2003 3:35:23 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: shadowman99
HUA!!! ;-)
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posted on
03/25/2003 3:35:38 PM PST
by
GLDNGUN
To: kattracks
Well, they finally did it. I guess Rumsfield's
daily monitoring of FreeRepublic paid off. ------< /humor>
To: kattracks
Now that that one's blown up, how about NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN? There are no innocent women and children in there. Only she-males and homo perverts.... Well, Tom Brokaw hasn't done a too bad of a job (as far as I can see), so Rumsfield'll warn him first.
To: TLBSHOW
Iraqi satellite television was still broadcasting normally.Looks like your "gift" has been recalled, doesn't it?
As usual, you were wrong, but tried to take credit for it anyway.
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03/25/2003 3:42:51 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
I don't think satellite telivision's as bad. I don't know how many Iraqis can watch that.
To: GulliverSwift
Remember during the Afghan war when Iran went door to door to take up the satelite dishes? Freedom looks mighty good on TV.
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03/25/2003 3:47:42 PM PST
by
Howlin
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To: denydenydeny
An electro-magnetic bomb that melts transiters
To: Mister Baredog; bray; Diddle E. Squat
The interesting thing about that passage from Dubya's inaugural address is how prophetic it was, considering the monumental chain of events that began just a little over seven months after he was sworn in, and which continue today in Iraq. I simply don't know how to admire or respect a person more than I admire and respect President George W. Bush.
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03/25/2003 4:43:46 PM PST
by
Wolfstar
(Why war in Iraq? Answer: ANTHRAX.)
To: Mister Baredog
Unfortunately there is still Al Jazeera, Abu-Dhabi TV, and many other propaganda outlets for these thugs,oh I almost forgot CNN. I too was hoping that this report would state that, but alas, no.
The uplinks/backhauls are probably satellite, although they could possibly be fiber. Either way, Bush or the military can probably kill them when they want to. However, some of the other links (like the hotel balcony cams) may share those facilities and go away too.
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03/25/2003 4:44:48 PM PST
by
Erasmus
To: wimpycat
Dere ah no Iracki Tv. Call the embassy, have the green olives flow in immediately by aeroplane.
This is series !
To: T. Jefferson
VIt's about friggin' time.......
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:07:52 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Bonaparte)
To: Mister Baredog
oh I almost forgot CNN.Ugh....unfortunately you are correct. Especially about the clintoon news network.
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:11:34 PM PST
by
dansangel
(America - love it, support it, or LEAVE IT!)
To: GulliverSwift; nicmarlo
I can't believe they waited this long either. I am sure CNN,NBC,ABC and CBS will step up to the plate to help them spread their anti-American propaganda.
I heard today that we fried the transmission with some type of radiation pulse device....pretty nifty.
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03/25/2003 6:10:48 PM PST
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TheLion
To: All
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03/25/2003 6:11:01 PM PST
by
Bob J
To: Sabertooth
Great! We had a good day today. Praise the Lord!
I suffer every day thinking about it and since I don't get the net, I listen to the radio every time I get a break. :-)
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