Petah Arnett said he was at the Al Rashid Hotel on the balcony watching the 1.7 mile long presidential palace and other huge buildings just disintegrate. He was only a couple hundred yards away and felt perfectly safe. People in the neighborhood came outside in their robes and bedroom slippers and walked toward the Euphrates River to watch in shock and awe.
If that is isn't wonderful testimony to the "Arab Street's" faith in American technology, then nothing will ever be!!
I've got a lot of faith, but I think I'd be hunkered down with that kind of foreworks going off.....anywhere!!