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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: kattracks
Rock the Casbah.
The best way to end war and ensure peace is to kill the enemy.
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:13:12 PM PST
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
To: kattracks
"technical problem in the transmitters" LOL
To: JustinV
"I wonder if this has anything to do with the 'soldiers' in US uniforms killing the surrendering soldiers"
My thoughts exactly!
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:13:21 PM PST
by
landerwy
To: kattracks
Behold the power of ZOT!
44
posted on
03/25/2003 1:13:21 PM PST
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: kattracks
That e-bomb that we have been hearing about?
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:13:30 PM PST
by
Eva
To: dansangel; MeeknMing; sweetliberty; TheLion; Budge; Brad's Gramma; ohioWfan; Mo1; rintense; ...
Large explosions rocked Baghdad late on Tuesday and Iraqi television went off air as the first blast struck the capital. 
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:13:56 PM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: kattracks
Hey Saddam, I guess you won't be re-newing your subscription.
47
posted on
03/25/2003 1:14:07 PM PST
by
Cagey
To: GLDNGUN
Not Hoo-waa. HUA! (Heard Understood Acknowledged)
To: kattracks
Ahhh, so we waited until our armies were just outside of Baghdad, and Baghdad was being hit by a large sandstorm before turning off their propaganda system.
Sweet.
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:14:38 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: FreeTheHostages
Hackers attacked the Web site of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera ...Hackers from B Company, 3rd Hack Battalion, 24th IT Brigade.
50
posted on
03/25/2003 1:14:43 PM PST
by
ladtx
("...the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." D. MacArthur)
To: kattracks
Does anyone have any idea why it took sooo long for this to happen?
To: jriemer; Admin Moderator
ROFL!
Iraqi TV has been Zotted!
Bring on the Viking Kittens!
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:15:02 PM PST
by
wimpycat
('Nemo me impune lacessit')
To: kattracks
If only a few of those technical problems would hit NBC, CBS, ABC, PMSNBC and CNN, things would be just dandy.
To: kattracks
I heard the planes taking off in the last 24 hours ... they were obviously heavy-laden due to the roar of the engines ... I am specifically obscuring the time ... I won't say when they took off ... but I heard them ... and they were on full power or nearly full power ...
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:16:09 PM PST
by
Bobby777
To: kattracks
Bump!
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:16:48 PM PST
by
k2blader
(If one good thing can be said about the UN, it is that it taught me how to spell “irrelevant.”)
To: kattracks
Game over.
56
posted on
03/25/2003 1:16:52 PM PST
by
SquirrelKing
("War is not nice." - Barbara Bush (W.T. Sherman in pearls.)
To: JustinV
UR#29)........................BTTT
I wonder if this has anything to do with the 'soldiers' in US uniforms killing the surrendering soldiers. It would be real bad to let them use that as propoganda.
"The 'show' does NOT have to go on!!!"
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:17:02 PM PST
by
maestro
To: kattracks
All your reruns are belong to us.
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:17:02 PM PST
by
Tin Cup
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:17:27 PM PST
by
j_k_l
To: Bobby777
Hoo yah!
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posted on
03/25/2003 1:17:29 PM PST
by
nicmarlo
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