HUGE Explosion, UN Building, Baghdad (All US Senators safe)

ABC Radio, WLS-AM, Chicago ^ | 08/19/03 | GRRRRR

[GRRRRR]

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

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Note who on the opposition is using this as an excuse to attack our war efforts. Is XXX42 still on the road selling out the US military to current leaders of anti-Coalition nations?

[Mo1]

CNN is playing this straight for a change......no spin....odd!

Only because it was the UN that was attacked this time

[mhking]

CNN is playing this straight for a change......no spin....odd!

Yes and no -- because this was the UN, it rattled their cage a lot. They'll stay straight until they figure out that they can go after the Administration and blame Bush for it.

[Wait4Truth]

The coverage is already turning negative on the cable news channels. IMO, Fox has been the worst followed closely by the others.

[dixie sass]

Thank you for the information. I would imagine that they were or are at military headquarters. Seems logical.

[Peach]

Yes, FNC has been a huge disappointment lately.

[Peach]

FNC just said Rueters is reporting 10 dead.

[prairiebreeze]

IMO, Fox has been the worst

I heard the most lucid commentary of the UN being foolish to assume it wouldn't be targeted by terrorists on Fox. Regardless of Nadler, their coverage hasn't been odious.

Prairie

[Peach]

UN statement on now.

[Mo1]

They'll stay straight until they figure out that they can go after the Administration and blame Bush for it.

With no military to protect that building .. it was a soft target. They can't blame Bush for this

[SlickWillard]

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.

I am.

[Howlin]

Yes, it was right above the new one about ME. Thank goodness people send me the links so I can see how obsessed he is with us. Sicko.

[prairiebreeze]

UN Assist. Sec. General making statement

[rrrod]

ditto

[Pokey78]

Uh oh! Kofi's pissed. Now the terrorists better be scared!

[Catspaw]

With no military to protect that building .. it was a soft target. They can't blame Bush for this

Of course they can--and they will. They'll probably blame him for playing golf before the blast went off.

[Peach]

UN: Members of the Council reaffirm that this attack will not affect the mission and members of the Council will state united to help the Iraqi people stabilize their country.

The mission in Iraq has been established by the Security Council and we are on a mission of peace for the reconstruction of the country. It is all the more shocking that this attack occurred.

[mabelkitty]

Why? Unless they knew they were protected by the powers that be?

Hundreds of Iraqi U.N. folks injured.

Remember, U.N. jobs went to Ba'athist party loyalists and other Saddam buddies - not to the oppressed, starving Iraqis.

[prairiebreeze]

He sounds French. ??

Says it is "shocking" this attack occurred.

Prairie

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Welcome, SAM. I expect we'll learn much useful info about our opponents today - both foreign and domestic.

I think the posters of 'Saddam as Zsa Zsa' could have inspired this attack. Desperate people, inflamed with hatred, without a future emerging from their caves - and fewer of them every day.

Our troops shine under pressure, don't they?