SKY NWS: Explosions reported near the US base in Baghdad

MSNBC/SKY NEWS

[Dog]

Sky is reporting explosions near the US base in Baghdad........that is all MSNBC is reporting right now they are trying to get further details.

[yonif]

No reports in Israeli media yet.

[Quilla]

Thanks for staying on top of things for the cubicle-chained.

[BlownChevelle]

Is this the one? It just broke:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/weekly/newsnat-12aug2003-5.htm

[frmrda]

Ug, the link says it's at a barracks in Ramadi. My brother in law is stationed there and there's now a pit in my stomach. Pray for all troops over there.

[Dog]

Could be ......I was just reading that article......isn't that a little to the west of Baghdad??

[flamefront]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- It's 122 degrees in the shade.

It's getting hotter.

[Quilla]

From the article you linked:

Six huge explosions have rocked a US military base in Ramadi, 100 kilometres west of Baghdad, as mysterious assailants fired on the compound, an eyewitness has told AFP.

Faras Mustafa, 34, said he saw smoke rising from the base after the blasts.

There was no immediate comment from the US army, but earlier Monday local time, Colonel Guy Shields, the coalition's top military spokesman, said the base in Ramadi had come under repeated mortar attack the previous few nights.

The town is considered a stronghold of sympathisers of Saddam Hussein's regime, who hailed from the same Sunni Muslim community, now embattled in the post-war Iraq era as the country's Shiite majority asserts its will.

[GraniteStateConservative]

The sooner we have Iraqi soldiers and policemen giving up their blood for freedom, the better.

[sarasota]

Why don't we have air cover?

[boxerblues]

Reportedly there is a munnitions dump there

[Shermy]

Iran and Saudi don't want Iraq up and producing again. Indeed, the current situation has been more profitable for them than the sanctions regime.

When it is shown and explained to the Iraqi people that outsiders are funding the disruptions with the grand aim of profit for themselves, the Iraqis will support us.

[MEG33]

Prayers for your brother in law and all our troops.

[boxerblues]

We'll keep him and all the troops there in our prayers.

[CWOJackson]

That's the whole idea.

[MEG33]

I was hoping it was a planned destruction of munitions.

[boxerblues]

It still could be one, but from the little bit I've seen of this site it could get nasty

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/ramadi.htm

[keats5]

Have you called his wife yet? She'll need some support right now, even if your brother-in-law is safe.

[Quilla]

Praying for our troops every day. God please bring them all home safe and soon.

[boxerblues]

Thanks...our troops need all the prayers we can send their way