Explosion Rocks Baghdad; Cause Unknown

[Emillereid]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An explosion rocked Baghdad early Wednesday....


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=5&u=/ap/20040921/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_explosion

If this is a dupe, sorry, I can't find it -- I think it's new.

[Jacobin]

1. Prolly a meteor

:eyes:

[Zero Gravitas]

2. or a gas main

or maybe a transformer when everybody fires up their AC and big screen TVs at the same time ;)

[Eye and Monkey]

14. Swamp gas. A weather balloon. Just a trick of the light.

[Beetwasher]

3. Cause Unknown? Maybe Someone Shook Their Beer Can Too Much?

:shrug:

Idiots...

[Parche]

4. explosion

Looks like Allawi has flatulated some BS

[Emillereid]

5. Good one! I needed a laugh!

[Cyrano]

6. Maybe the immediate cause is unknown, but the root cause is

George W. Bush. Every drop of blood that's been spilled there since the U.S. invasion is on the hands of this mass murderer.

[0007]

7. Maybe John Negroponte couldn't take any longer and decided

to throw an ace duce.

[UpInArms]

8. a spark in a fireworks plant? ............. n/t

[AlCzervik]

9. It's just a really large flower being thrown into the greenzone

to say thank you.

[goodboy]

10. that's hilarious...eom

[CHIMO]

11. US forces attack Sadr City

US tanks raided the Baghdad area of Sadr City in the early hours of Wednesday as aircraft bombed the area and helicopters flew low overhead, witnesses said.


"Right now we are in there. We are fighting the terrorists so we can re-establish civil-military operations and get back to the reconstruction projects that the people of Sadr City want," said army spokesman Major Philip Smith.

One local resident said he counted up to two dozen US tanks and other armoured vehicles on the streets in the western part of Sadr City, a sprawling, poor neighbourhood to the
northeast of Baghdad's city centre where insurgents have established large areas of control.
Bombing had begun around 2100 GMT on Tuesday and was continuing.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B1C3D5F1-825F-4C90-B4A4-0DB122E1C1F1.htm

[Jacobin]

12. bombing Baghdad again

Yeah. That'll really work.

:eyes:

[Emillereid]

13. That will win the hearts and minds of the people for sure!