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12/17/2003 Archived Entry: "It was an accident. No really, it was..."
It was an accident. No really, it was...
I'm listening to Clear Channel news out of West Palm Beach, and the news-reader says that CENTCOM is saying that the truck bomb in Iraq this morning was actually no more than a traffic accident involving a fuel truck.
Funny.
On Sunday, CNN reported a large explosion in the heart of Baghdad in the hours after O'l Saddam's capture. At first it was thought to have been a bomb, but then reporters were told that the explosion was the result of celebratory gunfire in the air coming down and hitting a fuel truck.
Violence continues, even as Saddam Hussein now spends his first hours in custody. A suicide attack on an Iraqi police station in Khaldiyah kills 10 Iraqis, 20 more are wounded. A car bombing in Baghdad, injured carried away. And by nighttime, celebratory gunfire in Baghdad hits fuel truck canisters, causing the truck to catch fire and explode.
My question is this - who the fuck is leaving fuel trucks sitting all over Baghdad so they can be involved in all these 'accidents?'
Update: Went to Yahoo News looking for a link to the truck bombing story from Reuters, and it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere any more.... Guardian still has a story that's a weird cross between the old and new stories here.
Replies: 6 people speak up
Well, that certainly sounds more plausible than blaming it on a meteor shower. Or maybe it was just spontaneous combustion.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 12/17/2003 04:31 PM NY
It was all M80's, bottle rockets, and cherry bombs.
Posted by sellursoul @ 12/17/2003 04:47 PM NY
well, from what ive heard there is barely a drop of gasoline in iraq. people have to wait for hours in line to fill up their tanks. where are all these trucks loaded with fuel coming from? haliburton? they seem to be the only people with gas in iraq, maybe thats why they are charging the military so much for gas, they have been blowing up trucks of it to drive up the price
Posted by justin @ 12/17/2003 04:47 PM NY
Well I've got a nice little angry man on my site lately calling my childish and ignorant. Surprised he hasn't stopped by here. Likes to call himself 'blackadder'. He was aroudn a couple months ago too. The dude can't shut up. Even so paranoid as to say my Preview Comments button ate his comments and that's "ar for the course". haha!
Anyway, if anyone wants to stop by and say hi to him for me I'd love it. Try to be somewhat polite. DOn't call him too many names. I prefer the "oh how sad" method of mockign people rather than the name callign method. I'd appreciate it since my only comments lately are from this joker and me answering him.
On the following entries.
http://www.xtra-rant.com/mtarchives/000952.php
http://www.xtra-rant.com/mtarchives/000950.php
Y'all don't need to but man, I tell you it's lonely only having the occasional loquacious crazy in my comments.
Keep up the great work stranger. If my site had 1/2 the content (and the readers) I'd be a happy man. ;)
Posted by Jason @ 12/17/2003 05:44 PM NY
that's supposed to say "par for the couse". I sounded like a pirate.
What'd the pirate shoot in his golf game over the weekend?
arrrrrrrr for the couse!
Posted by Jason @ 12/17/2003 05:45 PM NY
"who the fuck is leaving fuel trucks sitting all over Baghdad so they can be involved in all these 'accidents?' "
Halliburton? They are so poorly paid they cannot take care of their trucks.
Posted by GB @ 12/19/2003 12:54 PM NY
