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HUGE Explosion, UN Building, Baghdad (All US Senators safe)
ABC Radio, WLS-AM, Chicago ^ | 08/19/03 | GRRRRR

Posted on 08/19/2003 5:55:06 AM PDT by GRRRRR

WLS-AM & ABC News, just A LARGE explosion just reported at the UN Building in Baghdad...perhaps 500lb bomb or more..


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: becauseofeasttimor; catholiceasttimor; demello; easttimor; explosion; hambalisrevenge; iraq; iraqaftermath; iraqiterrorism; muslimindonesia; religionofpeace; terrorists; theykilled; un; unhqbombing
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To: r9etb
Yep. Said this earlier. If the Iraqis did this, they were stupid. The UN was against any war in Iraq. But I don't think the Iraqis did this.
421 posted on 08/19/2003 7:43:18 AM PDT by rintense
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To: razorback-bert
Just heard a NPR babe, say: "who would attack a UN mission?"

After all, the UN has tried hard not to annoy the terrorists.

Ungrateful bunch, aren't they?

422 posted on 08/19/2003 7:43:34 AM PDT by Interesting Times (Leftists view the truth as an easily avoidable nuisance)
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To: motherlydia
ABC news just reported that Senator Inhoffe's office has still not located him.

This is not good.

423 posted on 08/19/2003 7:43:43 AM PDT by mhking
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To: Mo1
There's an awful lot of confusion there, Mo......he probably just can't get in touch with them.....
424 posted on 08/19/2003 7:43:43 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Have you prayed for your President today?)
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To: Mo1
I'm waiting to see how Drudge is going to blame this on Schwartzenneger.
425 posted on 08/19/2003 7:43:53 AM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: Interesting Times
Or perhaps the U.N. didn't want guards around the building, because they didn't want the U.S. to see what they were doing.

Was Saddam's body found in here?
427 posted on 08/19/2003 7:44:48 AM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: fishtank
We actually need to do more than get out of the UN, we need to dismantle the UN.

If it's dismantled, then fine. But if it exists, then we have to be part of it and exert our influence or else it will become a much worse anti-American organization that we ahve to deal with from the outside. We can't run and hide.

428 posted on 08/19/2003 7:44:56 AM PDT by Consort
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To: dogbyte12
Or Bush....:-)
429 posted on 08/19/2003 7:44:59 AM PDT by Dog (: "And good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing 'This'll be the day Saddam dies...'")
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To: r9etb
Here is the UN Building before todays bombing

An Iraqi soldier stand guards in front of the United Nations (news - web sites) headquarters at al-Canal hotel in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), in this Saturday, Nov. 23, 2002 file photo. A huge explosion thought to be a car bomb went off at the hotel Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

430 posted on 08/19/2003 7:45:45 AM PDT by Mo1 (I still hate Liberal Democrats)
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To: dogbyte12
I'm waiting to see how Drudge is going to blame this on Schwartzenneger.

Or how Hillary blames Bush.

431 posted on 08/19/2003 7:46:08 AM PDT by rintense
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To: WVNan
The SOD agrees with you.

Secretary Rumsfeld Pentagon Town Hall Meeting, Aug. 14

We're such a fortunate people with these two oceans and two friends on the north and south, that we've always been able, for the most part, to get up in the morning and walk out a door and not have to look both ways and see if we're going to be killed.  And if you live in places like Beirut, when it was under terrorism, and in places elsewhere around the world today, you can't do that.

     And so I think the -- what we see going on is a very serious problem.  We see people are being drawn into these so-called madrassa schools, the ones that teach the worst things -- there are many madrassa schools that teach fine things, but -- and we ought not to mistake that.  But there are a lot of people being brought in to training as a terrorist -- to kill other people.  They're not being taught languages, they're not being taught mathematics, they're not being taught how to function in a society or what a civil society is, how to be a doctor or a nurse or a lawyer or a policeman or a fireman, they're being taught how to kill people.  And they're being led to believe -- enough people have hijacked these schools and the religion and are trying to pervert it to teach people that they -- for whatever reason, it's their role in life to sacrifice themselves and to kill people who are not like them.

     Now, what's the end state?  The end state is that there are fewer of those people coming into that process than there are being arrested or captured or killed for doing terrible acts. 

And that means that, as successful as we are on the defense side, it seems to me, we have to be even more successful in the battle of ideas, in the war of ideas, if you will; in encouraging the countries where this kind of training is taking place to stop it, to stop the people who are funding it, to stop the people who are encouraging it, to stop the people who are so fearful of it for themselves that they're afraid to do anything about it; to give them courage and to give them heart and encouragement.

     The world would be a terrible place if they win.  If they're able to so intimidate nation-states around the world that the nation-states become tolerant of the fundraising and tolerant of the teachings of terror and killing, tolerant of allowing them to use their real estate for terrorist training camps and transit, it will change the nature of the world, and  -- which is why Dick Myers said what he said.  This battle we're in, this war we're in is as important as any other because it is, quite apart from the reality of the fact that it's a war that involved kinetics, it is also a war that involves people's minds and ideas, and that's terribly important.

432 posted on 08/19/2003 7:46:28 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("We're ready and willing to get the job done." - Staff Sgt Paul Johnson, nr. UN building, Iraq.)
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To: fishtank
"At it's very worst, this is designed to drive the US and the UN into closer cooperation with each other."

It was designed for no such thing - this bomb wasn't planted by One-Worlders trying to increase the role of the U.N. in Iraq, but by Islamic militants and/or Ba'ath Party dead-enders trying to scuttle the creation of a post-Saddam Iraq.
433 posted on 08/19/2003 7:46:47 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle (uo)
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To: dogbyte12
Might be hard for the senator to get through to anybody right now. Bet all the phone lines are jammed there. Hopefully, everything will be ok.

That's true

434 posted on 08/19/2003 7:46:53 AM PDT by Mo1 (I still hate Liberal Democrats)
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To: mhking
PLEASE keep us informed about Senator Inhoffe's whereabouts as news is provided.
435 posted on 08/19/2003 7:47:32 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: rintense
Hillary is history if she does
436 posted on 08/19/2003 7:47:52 AM PDT by boxerblues (God Bless the 101st, stay safe, stay alert and watch your backs)
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To: smith288
Lol, no problem.
437 posted on 08/19/2003 7:47:53 AM PDT by dixie sass (GOD bless America)
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To: GRRRRR
God Help me, but the arab mentality is sick. I have never seen a race that is so committed to cutting its' nose off to spite its' face.

It's getting to the point where the Arab muslims have really earned our contempt. Other Nations with the power we have would do something to end it once and for all, I'm not advocating this, but at certain moments a person can think like that.

Oh God I hate the media. On Fox just now some idiot news babe just asked if the Saddam as Elvis and Saddam as a blonde pinup pictures caused this bomb to happen. Fire that idiot. Fire her.
438 posted on 08/19/2003 7:48:20 AM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: Peach
PLEASE keep us informed about Senator Inhoffe's whereabouts as news is provided.

I'm watching the wires as well as the other news sources.

439 posted on 08/19/2003 7:48:20 AM PDT by mhking
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To: dogbyte12
I'm waiting to see how Drudge is going to blame this on Schwartzenneger

Naaa .. he'll blame Bush

Has Hellary spoken about this yet?

440 posted on 08/19/2003 7:48:30 AM PDT by Mo1 (I still hate Liberal Democrats)
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