[Smile-n-Win]

The U.S. forces, as well as the CNN crew, were forced back from the area several times, when crowds of angry Iraqis became volatile.

CNN always thinks Arabs are angry with us. No bias here...

[El Gato]

and torpedoes.

???? Torpedoes??? Iraq has no submarines, hasn't really had a Navy since the war with Iran and especially the Gulf War, and I don't believe the few patrol boats they once had were armed with torpedoes. Even if they did, what would the torpedoes be doing in an ammo dump in Baghdad, rather than someplace closer to the Gulf, like Basra or the port of Umm Qasr?

[lilylangtree]

Appears some Saddam supporters still loose. Hope the islamic boob got killed in the explosion or at the very least hurt real bad

[pragmatic_asian]

"One enraged resident repeatedly yelled, "Why?," shouting that women and children were among those inside the house."

Is there always a Muslim Arab around yelling 'What about the children' hysterically like the Simpson's Mrs. Lovejoy? It's either cries of massacre this, infidel that, innocent 'civilians', etc...

I read the AP account that describes the dump as a depot where the US stored some weapons from smaller caches. Still, it was in a field surrounded by a fence 500 meters from the nearest house. That article makes it look like the US stored all that stuff right next to residential homes when that's not true. The people killed were actually hit by a missile set off in the fire that resulted from flares shot into the dump. A really unfortunate result of a deliberate attack; so while the US makes a convienant target but who is really to blame here?

[Cacique]

Notice the Madonna and Child on the upper right hand corner. The blast obviously occured in a Christian neighborhood. Who wants to bet that Muslim radicals targeted it on purpose! I am surpirsed that no-one has pointed this out. On the other hand, maybe the press is not reporting it on purpose or they are doing a lousy job at reporting.

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An Iraqi man sits in despair in the ruins of his house April 27, 2003, at Zaafaraniya on the outskirts of Baghdad. A powerful blast which the U.S. military said was caused by unknown attackers firing an incendiary device into an Iraqi munitions store at Zaafaraniya killed several Iraqi civilians on Saturday. Local residents said U.S. troops had packed cars with confiscated weapons and detonated them at the site. The Americans denied this. REUTERS/Petr Josek