Huge explosions heard in central Baghdad.

[sonsofliberty2000]

Huge explosions heard in central Baghdad.

[eyespysomething]

They are firing the mortar from a populated area....we can't should fire back!!!!!

[facedown]

BTTT

[MEG33]

Nerd answered my last inquiry with a negative on harm done.I just pinged him on this one..might not hear for hours,though.The walls are VERY thick and it would take a lucky hit on someone outside,I think.The news calls it harrassment.Hit and run.

[Tree of Liberty]

we can't fire back!!!!!

No, we can fire back, but won't due to very stupid ROE.

[eyespysomething]

At least it gives the dim candidates something to be shrill about. < /sarcasm>

[Timesink]

CENTCOM confirms two explosions.

CNN says at least one round entered the gates of the coalition compound.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

FN: Dana Lewis:

 

A few miles from the area. 15 or 20 minutes ago, heard 4 to 5 explosions "echo off" his building.

 

According to some of our people who went up on the roof, they saw a column of smoke and the smell of sulpher in the air....a second column..nr. Iraqi Min, planning.

 

Soon after - sirens. Now quiet. No smoke seen now.

 

David Asman: US military spokesman confirms the attack. Confirm that there were at least 3 separate blasts. There is smoke coming from the (CPA) compound.

 

Dana Lewis: Sounded like the attacks were 1-2-3-4 in succession - as one attack. It is very hard for anyone, so far, to hit those buildings...around the so-called "Green Area" - very wide perimeter...have to launch at a distance. Sounds like tonight they have gotten very close indeed.

 

"The car bombs happen at dawn. It seems that every night these mortar attacks happen after sunset....on the mortar attacks around that compound - and there have been a number of them now - they seem to be taking place after sunset."

 

Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney: "What they're trying to do is get a lot of publicity on it. They're not very accurate...the mortars...but somebody's getting a lot of publicity." "It's a small number of people...this is what we would call a harassing and interdiction-type (incident - site, hit and run)..."It's one or two people doing it...it's not like you have..200 people making these attacks."  "This is all being orchestrated...we're in Ramadan, and every day they're trying to have some activity...keep it on the media....2 or 3 rounds from a mortar - that happens every day in Afghanistan..." "How effective? Not very effective."

 

[Dog]

THey want to get on the American news...

CNN: At least one round hit inside the CPA compound.

[Agitate]

They are firing the mortar from a populated area....we can't fire back!!!!!
Damn it!!!!

We can and we should. Looks like the jihadis are stepping up their efforts for allah, probabaly for rhamadan. It's time we get more agressive and take these bastards out, I'm fed up with the US holding back for the sake of world opinion or whatever...If we got more agressive, we could end this quicker with fewer Americans dead.

[jbstrick]

Immense pressure need to be brought upon Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia to keep these Islamofacists out of Iraq.

[Mo1]

We may not be able to fire back .. but we do need to clamp down to stop these attacks

[MEG33]

It also gives our resident naysayers here a chance to cluck.

[Dog]

Rags.....I swear you work for Fox News......:-)

I just heard that conversation...

[Austin Willard Wright]

The people who got in this mess, now want to get us in even deeper attacking civilian homes. Let's get the hell out of this quagmire, and yes Virginia, it is a quagmire. Iraq is a Bosnia writ large and it is utopian to try to make it into a unitary/democratic state. No "get tough policy" can magically change that. Bring em home.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Lol. Fast fingers. (^;

FN: Dana Lewis:  Old palace of Saddam Hussein...we are now hearing reports from the area...speaking to an Iraqi guard and indeed there were at least three explosions coming from inside the compound." Starting to hear armor rolling through the streets...

 

 

Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney putting things in perspective. Good man.

[Dog]

CNN has a video and you can hear......the explosions in the background...

[TomGuy]

FoxNew Dana Lewis: Eye witness Iraqi guard saying 3 explosions came from inside the CPA (US) compound.

Gen. McIneerney says it is a few radicals getting lucking but doing it mostly to make the news. He doubts much actual damage happened as a result due to the strength of the compound structure.

[Mo1]

Did you check out the video clip from CNN where you could hear the attacks in the back ground?

[jbstrick]

OK, We'll leave. Then what? What plan do you have to solve this problem?

Would you have left the Quagmire of Omaha Beach, Charlie Sector?

[Dog]

Wonder if this was bigger than a mortar....maybe a surface to aurface missile..