US says gas explosion that killed 63 Iraqis wasn't a gas explosion now

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Iraq_Explosion_Controversy.html

U.S. blames Iraq blast on hostile act

By VIJAY JOSHI
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Car bombs triggered gas explosions in a Shiite neighborhood two days ago, the U.S. said Tuesday, acknowledging that the attack was due to a hostile act.

At least 63 Iraqis were killed and 140 wounded in the series of explosions Sunday night in Zafraniyah. Iraqi officials said the blasts were due to car bombs and a rocket attack from a Sunni neighborhood under U.S. control.

But U.S. military spokesman, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, insisted Monday that American experts had concluded that there was "no evidence" of anything other than a "significant gas explosion."

That implied that the blast may not have been due to a hostile act.

However, a U.S. statement Tuesday said the blasts were triggered when two car bombs detonated near a residential building, "causing a gas explosion" that collapsed the structure.

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1. It sounds like a gas explosion induced by a car bomb

still a gas explosion however.

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2. Or a US bomb falling on a car that these liars call a car bomb

Wouldn't be the first time that has occurred I suspect.

Don