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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: b4its2late
From what I hear, Brit says its back up now.
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posted on
03/25/2003 6:14:01 PM PST
by
smith288
(Visit my gallery http://www.ejsmithweb.com/fr/hollywood/hollywood.php)
To: Victoria Delsoul
We had a good day today.
We had a great day. When the sandstorm clears, our troops will not be where the Republican Guard thinks they are.
To: Sabertooth
I hope so, lol.
To: Howlin
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:27:34 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
(The gift is to see the truth......)
To: kattracks
The night belongs to us. Kill the Iraqi army in the silent cloak of darkness. Fitting, as it were, for the ilk of humanity to be destroyed in the quiet of the darkness. BuBBye!!!
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:45:12 PM PST
by
timydnuc
(FR)
To: TLBSHOW
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posted on
03/25/2003 8:46:46 PM PST
by
strela
("a' poppin' off at Pop's Sodium Shop")
To: smith288
On again, Off again. Yikes. But I guess there were Iraqi military meeting there, so, I think it'll be more Off again from now on...... :-)
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posted on
03/25/2003 9:43:46 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Bonaparte)
To: TheLion; GulliverSwift
FOX is saying Iraqi t.v. back on with weaker signal....
To: Sabertooth
Explosions rock Baghdad, TV goes off the air Just as well. They had nothing on worth watching anyway. Mostly reruns.
Worse yet, they were reruns of Saddam saying things like: Look at me. I am alive. Watch me talk and move. They cant get me. Look at me. I am alive. Watch me talk and move. They cant get me. Look at me. I am alive. Watch me talk and move. They cant get me. Look at me. I am alive. Watch me talk and move. They cant get me. Look at me
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:07:50 AM PST
by
Barnacle
(Because people know better than to take a joke seriously, the UN is worse than a joke.)
To: nicmarlo
FOX is saying Iraqi t.v. back on with weaker signal....
Weaker signal? They better refer to this instruction manual.
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:14:47 AM PST
by
Barnacle
(Because people know better than to take a joke seriously, the UN is worse than a joke.)
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