14 Reposted Dead in Massive Kirkuk, Iraq Blast news reports say!

[KoKo]

14 dead in Iraq clashes, blast
Daily Times, Pakistan - 1 hour ago
... assailants fired mortars or missiles, hitting an arms depot at the airport in Kirkuk. ... Yussef said the initial explosion triggered a succession of blasts. ...


Calgary Herald New Iraqi government starts work amid fresh violence
Channel News Asia, Singapore - 2 hours ago
... The blasts came as a two-month-old conflict between the militia of radical cleric ... area at a US military base in the northern city of Kirkuk, setting off a huge ...
Iraq's new government introduced amid barrage of violence - Channel News Asia
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US troops battle Shiite militants
Toronto Star, Canada - 18 minutes ago
... the northern oil city of Kirkuk late today. Maj.-Gen. Anwar Mohammed Amin, commander of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps in the area, said the blasts came from an ...
http://news.google.com/news?q=Kirkuk+Blasts&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nn



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Fire rages at US military base
02/06/2004 20:48 - (SA)
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Kirkuk - A huge blaze raged at a US military base in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday after insurgents hit the base's weapons storage area, police said.

"Unknown assailants fired mortars or missiles, hitting an arms depot at the airport in Kirkuk.

"The shells hit the storage area and there was a huge explosion at the base," said police chief Turhan Yussef.

Yussef said the initial explosion triggered a succession of blasts.

The base is regularly hit by mortar strikes and rebel attacks.

Explosions could still be heard almost one hour after the attack, which happened at about 22:30 (18:30 GMT), and heavy black smoke covered the night sky over the city, a correspondent said.

Sirens were heard initially going off at the base and a voice over loudspeakers was urging soldiers to go into bunkers.

The base is regularly hit by mortar strikes and rebel attacks.

The US military had no immediate comment of the attack on the base, where the landing strip is used for charter and military flights.

A civilian was found burnt to death with his hands tied to his back inside his car in the vicinity of the base, according to Yussef.

Separately, two Iraqi policemen were killed when unidentified assailants drove up next to them and showered them with gunfire.

Edited by Elmarie Jack
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1536790,00.html

[Leprechan29]

1. Maybe

The military should develop a way to not have chain reactions set off when their ordinance is attacked. If they have some way and it failed, then they need to work on it a bit.

[JaySherman]

2. Wow

Yet the military claims to "unaware of the incident?"

Bullshit.

Wanna bet the military spokeman in question was Kimmit the Frog?

:mad:

[Just Me]

3. Geez. Are we experiencing a total black-out on this in the USA?

WTF is happening over there?

These reports still appear as "preliminary" info.

[KoKo]

5. Negroponte and the New Iraqi Prime Minister, perhaps? Very strange...

Today was a blood bath in Iraq if you Google. It's not just Kirkuk but the rest of Iraq. I concentrated on Kirkuk because it was OUR weapons storage that was probably blown up.

No news reports on this are bizarre.. Have we finally been "silenced?"

If legitimate newspapers are reporting this, then why not our cables?

It's hardly like Al Jazeera is the only source on this story! :crazy:

[Just Me]

8. No news is very bad news these days,...

,...at least, it sure seems that way.

[Chicago Democrat]

6. Yeah, have you noticed how all of the sudden its Scot Petersen all over...

And Iraq is just a distant memory...

[wolfgirl]

4. I heard

somewhere that the Marines would no longer report casualties. This began a couple of months ago. I don't have a link...just something I heard...anyone heard otherwise or more details?

[Longhorn]

12. The Marines report casualties

but not immediately. They said that they don't want the enemy to instantly know how effective an operation was by getting details about the casualties. Deaths are still reported at http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/ and http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/casualties.asp but they are always a few days behind Army casualties on the same day.

(I used to moderate a Marine parent board until it became too politically one-sided. You can guess which side!)

[Dover]

7. Reuters says no casualties reported....yet.

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A guerrilla attack on a major U.S. military base in Iraq on Wednesday triggered a huge chain of explosions in an arms dump that left much of the area ablaze and shrouded in smoke, but no casualties were reported.

Iraq's new interim government devoted much of its first cabinet meeting to thrashing out how to deal with guerrilla violence -- the biggest threat to plans for elections in the new year and to its ministers' very survival.

..snip..

Shells and rockets screamed into the night sky after the attack on the U.S. base at an airport on the edge of the northern oil hub city of Kirkuk.

"You can see rockets flying and landing all over the base," a Reuters correspondent said from a vantage point some 500 yards from the base's perimeter, as thick black smoke poured over the city, some 150 miles north of Baghdad.

Loudspeaker announcements could be heard on the base warning troops to stay under cover but there was no sign of ambulances or firefighting vehicles in the city of 700,000, which was under curfew after dark because of regular guerrilla violence.

Mortar and rocket attacks on U.S. bases are almost daily occurrences across Iraq....>>



http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5327533

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Who the hell is the genius

that decided to put the arms depot at the airport? I guess they just want to make it easier for hijackers to turn airplanes into missiles?

[0rganism]

10. The shit's gonna hit the fan hard in Kirkuk

Maybe not first, maybe not fastest, but hard. It's set up to be Iraq's #1 clusterfuck, a resource-rich town with some serious ethnic splits. Iran has an interest. Turkey has an interest. The oil industry has an interest. Lots of shooters, lots of expensive targets. I couldn't think of a better place to start a 3-way civil war.

[dArKeR]

11. MSGOP has really even reported on this. They buried a sentence in another

story. No one can deny a moral and honest news source wouln't make this the Headline!


Seven killed in violence in Baghdad, south
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5057770/

[maggrwaggr]

13. shut up, you're drowning out the Scott Peterson coverage!!

damnit I'm trying to get some NEWS here