Marines Find Car Bomb Factory in Iraq

[Ernesto]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Marines discovered a car bomb factory Monday in a western Iraqi town near where 20 members of the American unit were killed last week, the U.S. military said.
Six vehicles rigged with explosives were found in the hideout in the northern part of Haqlaniyah, one of a cluster of towns in western Anbar province long believed to be a stronghold of Iraqi insurgents and foreign fighters.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_marine_find

[still_one]

1. OK, war over lets come home

[54anickel]

2. Wonder what building that desk was in

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On Sunday, U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers discovered a bomb in a building in Haqlaniyah. Three 155 mm artillery rounds, weighing more than 100 pounds apiece, were wired to a desk inside the building, the U.S. statement said.

Marines destroyed the bomb where it was found after determining it was too dangerous to remove it.

[stepnw1f]

3. And On The Explosives Made in I-R-A-

Is this Cabal predictable or what?

[PunkPop]

4. 1 down

127 to go!

[leftchick]

5. SUCCESS!!!!

we are winning!!

:sarcasm:

[merwin]

6. 6 vehicles constitutes a 'factory'?

Come on, that's not even what they go through in 2 days.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Last throes? Out of steam? Shit, those guys are just getting organized!

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. hmmmm? I wonder . . "All of the rigged vehicles were destroyed"

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isn't that like destroying evidence?

couldn't one take them apart to discover the origin of the explosives, detonators, vehicles etc??

even if they had to guard them until they got professional bomb handlers in ?

for all we know

they coulda just blown up 6, or whatever number of vehicles full of innocent citizens

like it wouldn't be anything new - - -

not for THESE "liberators" anyhoo . .

but that's just my Canuk observation

[kestrel91316]

12. Betcha those morons didn't dust for prints either .................

why would you want to bother to find out the identities of the insurgents??

[IndianaGreen]

9. According to the Pentagon's bar charts, we are winning the war!

"'When I look at the bar charts, the statistics are a clear indication that the tempo of suicide attacks has decreased,' General Alston said, noting that the percentage of car bombings involving suicide bombers was as high as 60 percent a few months ago. He expressed optimism that the flow of foreign fighters was ebbing. ‘This is not an expanding insurgency,' he said."

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0808-21.htm

[daleo]

10. Viet Nam, Five O'clock Follies

When I look at the bar charts...and you should see the scatter charts.

[henslee]

11. It was the one industry in Iraq that was back on its feet.