Baghdad suffers broad blackout

[expatriot]

http://www.adn.com/24hour/iraq/story/1055045p-7415389c.html


The Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq (November 16, 4:18 p.m. AST) - Wide areas of the Iraqi capital lost electric power early Monday, but the reason for the outage was unclear.
Power went off around midnight local time and was still off nearly four hours later. The U.S. compound and some major buildings were illuminated with generators.

A U.S. military spokesman said the coalition press center was operating on generator power as well, but he could not say what caused the outage.

[alcuno]

1. "he could not say what caused the outage"

Maybe it's a consequence of the dim bulb in the White House.

[saigon68]

2. Forgot to pay Halliburton for the light bill

I guess that will teach them.

[E_Zapata]

3. They just have 'no idea' -- no earthly idea.........

Just one big mystery........

And they have no idea for sure how these helicopters fall from the sky.

Seems the coalition is lacking protein or something, because they are sure dumbed down of late. Or.....maybe they just want to be sure about the 'happy' news.

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. The Crusaders probably bombed the power plant again

like they did before

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1629-2003Jul2.html?nav=hptop_tb

[tabasco]

5. We're bringing them the American way of life

Enron will be renamed and put in charge of Iraq's energy policy.