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Terrorist bomb detonates on bombers
Multi-National Force, Iraq ^ | December 20, 2005, 8:55 PM | Edward Loomis

Posted on 12/21/2005 7:07:48 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

December 20, 2005

Release A051220c

Terrorist bomb detonates on bombers

TIKRIT, Iraq – One terrorist was killed and another severely injured when the improvised explosive device they were attempting to emplace detonated prematurely. The incident occurred Dec. 19, near the city of Tikrit.

Tikrit police and Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team responded to the explosion. The police officers performed first-aid on the injured bomber, who was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

The IED was composed of a 155 mm artillery shell and a detonating device, according to an explosives ordnance team investigating the explosion.

Soldiers searching the area discovered another artillery round and several other IED components in a nearby vehicle.

In addition to the wounded bomber, two other men were detained for allegedly attempting to help the surviving bomber avoid the responding security forces.

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For more information, please contact the 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION Public Affairs Office at EDWARD.LOOMIS@US.ARMY.MIL


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: kaboom; oops; ownage; owned; pwn3d; pwn4g3; workaccident
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That's gonna leave a mark!
1 posted on 12/21/2005 7:07:49 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

I blame Bush.


2 posted on 12/21/2005 7:08:28 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Fenris6

Nice going Bush. :) You did it again!


3 posted on 12/21/2005 7:08:51 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Better put some ice on that.


4 posted on 12/21/2005 7:09:02 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Natural selection dictates that, over time, the remaining pool of prospective homicide bombers will become dumber and dumberer.
5 posted on 12/21/2005 7:09:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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To: Fenris6

This happens occasionally and I wonder if the US is employing any kind of RF technology to try to detonate these things remotely.


6 posted on 12/21/2005 7:09:46 AM PST by bkepley
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The police officers performed first-aid on the injured bomber


We're too nice. They should have just let the bomber bleed to death.


7 posted on 12/21/2005 7:10:18 AM PST by VA_Gentleman (Bush's fault pings are tiresome.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The police officers performed first-aid on the injured bomber, who was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

They should have shot him in the head and then thrown Spam on him to deny him entry into Allah's great circle party in the sky.

8 posted on 12/21/2005 7:10:33 AM PST by montag813
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Darwinists


9 posted on 12/21/2005 7:10:46 AM PST by conservative barking moonbat
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
There should be a law to neuter all captured terrorists.
10 posted on 12/21/2005 7:10:53 AM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: bkepley

We are. I've seen some stories on it.


11 posted on 12/21/2005 7:10:55 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: VA_Gentleman
We're too nice. They should have just let the bomber bleed to death.

I don't think they were being merciful. After they get done interrogating him, he'll probably wish they had let him die.

12 posted on 12/21/2005 7:11:26 AM PST by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Southack

Work Accident Ping


13 posted on 12/21/2005 7:11:26 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Over it is not, until over it is." -- Yoda Berra)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

They got one ALIVE!.........Get the panties ready!........


14 posted on 12/21/2005 7:11:36 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Donchya just hate it when that happens?


15 posted on 12/21/2005 7:11:52 AM PST by rdb3 (This is a ch__ch. What's missing?)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I love the smell of charred and dismembered ragheads in the morning, don't you?
16 posted on 12/21/2005 7:11:55 AM PST by Eagles Talon IV
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Thirty Zero accident free days on the job.
17 posted on 12/21/2005 7:12:08 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

One and 1/2 less.


18 posted on 12/21/2005 7:12:16 AM PST by Teletubbed
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To: Lazamataz
Work Accident Ping

Yeah, you'd think the Iraqis would have created their own version of OSHA by now. Maybe call it expl-OSHA.

19 posted on 12/21/2005 7:12:24 AM PST by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

I love a story with a happy ending!


20 posted on 12/21/2005 7:12:31 AM PST by airborne
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