Explosions rock (Baghdad) airport road

[leftchick]

http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2317352

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Explosions went off on the road near Baghdad's airport Saturday and plumes of black smoke were seen rising from the scene, witnesses said.

The area was sealed off after the blast, witnesses said. The treacherous stretch of the road is the site of daily attacks against U.S. troops and their supply convoys.

It was unclear whether there were casualties in the blasts, which went off near an overpass.

The U.S. military was unable to comment.



....unable or unwilling?

[molly]

1. Unwilling.....

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. That usually means

that we lost a few more guys.

[leftchick]

4. exactly.....

I saw another link mentioning a convoy hit on the road. It was a Chinese publication and I could not get it to open. Perhaps we will find out in a few days.

[xchrom]

2. what comment?

uh we made another stupid mistake and more people are dead?
uh, this will stop as soon as the iraqi people realize they're free?
uh, we meant them to do that?
uh, it's the arab press -- they're agin us?
uh, it's foreign fighters?


they do go on don't they?

[teryang]

5. Critically important line of communication unsecure

This is most significant. Given the many thousands of miles from the American mainland to Iraq, the fact that this route from the airport to the capital can't be secured is a portent of things to come.

We never hear the 2003 chorus from Centcom anymore that these attacks are not tactically significant.

[bemildred]

12. Does seem like a good place to pick a fight, if you want a fight.

They will have to defend the route, and if they cannot defend it,
it's just a matter of time until the Green Zone gets hosed and
we get the helicopter on top of the roof scene replay. There was
a guy a day or so ago that posted a piece about some officer warning
the political buttheads that he could not guarantee security in the
Green Zone anymore.

[Miss Authoritiva]

17. Ah, Rumsfeld's grand strategy: fast(?) and cheap(?)

Also known as: Shinseki was right.

The convoy routes are not secure; the Baghdad airport is iffy; the Green Zone gets pummeled every day; and critical oil pipeline junctions are sabotaged. And, of course, let's not forget the large areas of the country that are not under "coalition" control.

These areas cannot be secured because there are not enough troops to secure them. It doesn't take an enormous amount of intelligence to grasp this, but it sure does take an enormous amount of arrogance to stick to one's failed "fast(?) and cheap(?)" military plan.

[saigon68]

18. kick

[bemildred]

19. Old programmer's saying:

"You can have your project fast, cheap, and right. Pick any two."

[jmcgowanjm]

20. That's my favorite saying

I use "good" instead of right. Same thing.

And if I find something that fits all 3, I call it a miracle
and jump all over it.

[bemildred]

21. I call it a kick ass programmer, which is near being a miracle. nt

[jmcgowanjm]

6. Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 17 September 2004

Area of Hayfa Street in the al-Karakh area
of Baghdad:
Three hundred US troops, 200 Iraqi stooge soldiers and
250 puppet
policemen took part in the operation backed by 70
armored vehicles
and tanks. US snipers on rooftops provided additional
coverage for
the offensive.

Despite its dimensions, however, the local correspondent
of Mafkarat
al-Islam reports that it appears to have failed of its purpose,
sine
only a few dozen simple Iraqi young people were rounded up
in the
raids.

Meanwhile during their raids, Iraqi Resistance forces
attacked the
two sides of the Hayfa Street area in an attempt to break the
US
siege of the district. The first Resistance attack took place
in
the area of the ash-Shuhada' (Martyrs') Bridge, the area
coming from
ar-Rusafa where there is a statue to Ma`ruf ar-Rusafi. There
an
Iraqi Resistance martyrdom attacker drove a booby-trapped
car at a
US-Iraqi puppet military barricade. The Resistance martyr
youth
blew up the car at about 7:00am local time killing 14 US
troops and
20 Iraqi puppet soldiers. More than six vehicles – Humvees
and
pickup trucks used by the puppet army – were destroyed in
the attack.

On the other side of Hayfa Street near the Na`umi cold
storage
freezers, another Resistance attack took place. There an
Iraqi
Resistance youth attacked a checkpoint and killed six US
troops and
seven Iraqi puppet soldiers, destroying more than four
vehicles.


Iraqi Resistance forces fired thee high-explosive rockets
at
the US
airport in Ba`qubah. The local correspondent
of
Mafkarat al-Islam
reported that because of the intensity of the attack,
US
troops were
forced to evacuate the airport area to move into
the
surrounding
parks and gardens, indicating that the barrage
inflicted
severe
damage and that they expect it to continue.
The
correspondent wrote
that it is likely that powerful Tariq rockets were used
in
the
attack.

[saigon68]

7. Military Censorship to keep the SHEEP unaware

Not that it would matter in most cases any way

As long as they have bread and circuses (read football and NECKCAR) they are happy.

[leftchick]

8. You Nailed it DYEW! US Convoy Hit!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/iraq_unrest_us_attack

US convoy hit by roadside bomb in southern Baghdad


BAGHDAD, Sept 18 (AFP) - A US convoy was hit by a roadside bomb on the main highway to the airport in southern Baghdad and another convoy targeted by a car bomb moments later, an AFP correspondent and witnesses said.

The double attack took place shortly after 4:00 pm (1200 GMT) and the AFP reporter saw two vehicles on fire, apparently an explosives-laden civilian car and a US Humvee all-terrain vehicle which it rammed.


The ramming took place on a fly-over. Black smoke was billowing in the sky and US troops sealed off the area.


There was no immediate comment from the US military.





Heavy smoke billows from a burned US Humvee on a bridge that leads to Baghdad's International Airport. A US convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad.(AFP/Jewel Samad)

[saigon68]

13. We sure were on to the censorship on this one

too bad there isn't a Free press in Iraq-- only some clones with lap tops who parrot the official military line.

[henslee]

9. Maybe Mission Accomplished really means getting your ass blown off.

[saigon68]

10. FOUND SOMETHING FROM BULGARIA

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=48101&ch=0&datte=2004-09-18

Baghdad. A bomb blasted near a US motorcade of vehicles on the road to the airport in Southern Baghdad, reported AFP. A few minutes later another convoy of vehicles was attacked by a car bomb. The double attack was committed shortly after 3 pm Bulgarian time

NICE WORK US NEWS MEDIA you guys rock


ARE THEY ASLEEP OR WHAT ?????????

DISGUSTING

[leftchick]

14. The Resistance certainly seems to be getting much more sophisticated

and accurate these days. No?

[flordehinojos]

11. they were all probably crapping in their pants.

Today was supposed to be the GLORIOUS DAY OF LIBERATION IN WHICH IRAQ'S AIRLINE WAS TO REOPEN FLIGHTS TO TWO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES. THIS WAS PUBLICIZED YESTERDAY ON CNN. I CAN'T RECALL ON WHICH OF THE PROGRAMS IT WAS HAILED AS A GREAT VICTORY FOR THE IRAQI PEOPLE (it may have been on Candy Crowley's substituting for Judy the Asp Woof Woof's Inside Politics; EVEN WHEN CNN WAS FORCED TO ADMIT THAT OUT OF A FLEET OF 18(?) AIRPLANES THERE WAS ONLY ONE FUNCTIONAL ONE AND THAT SECURITY AT BAGHDAD AIRPORT WAS AN ISSUE.

These bushiites are so full of crap!

I THINK THE EXPLOSIONS ON THE ROAD NEAR BAGHDAD'S AIRPORT ARE TO BE HEARD/SEEN/FELT AS A STATEMENT FROM THE IRAQI INSURGENCY... THEIR MESSAGE to bush and the rest of the American occupying force THAT THEY DO NOT WANT THE UNITED STATES AND BUSH'S IRON HAND OCCUPYING IRAQ.

in the meantime the iron hand keeps saying that "murricah will stay the course of/for freedom in iraq and afghanistan."

D O E S T H E M A N E V E R L I S T E N? !!!!!!!!!!

STOP THE KILLINGS. STOP THE WAR. STOP BUSH!

[saigon68]

15. murricah will stay the course of/for freedom

BWA BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[henslee]

16. CATASTROPHE ACCOMPLISHED. n/t