Baghdad rocked by second car bomb (Wed. US Convoy)

[leftchick]

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=588722§ion=news

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb has exploded near a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad's Mansour district and there were several casualties, police say.

The blast followed an earlier suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad that killed at least 11 people as scores of men wanting to join Iraq's security forces queued up to photocopy their documents.

Wednesday's first blast destroyed several storefronts and an ice cream stall. Dozens were wounded by shrapnel.

Scores of sandals and shoes lay in pools of blood on the pavement. Iraqis covered burnt flesh lying on the ground with store banners torn down by the explosion

[leftchick]

1. a victim I found from yesterday.....

A wounded Iraqi boy, a car bomb victim, lies in Al-Yarmok hospital in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, September 21, 2004.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Bush's & Allawi's response

Getting rid of Saddam was the best thing we ever did, right Allawi?

[jmcgowanjm]

3. And what's happening on Hayfa St

The fierce fighting broke out at 1:00pm Sunday afternoon, local
time, and continued for some time after US troops tried to storm
Hayfa Street under the cover of Apache helicopter gunships that went
ahead firing at any moving target in their path along the street.
US snipers also deployed on the roof of the Saddam Medical Center
and a number of other buildings to cover the attempted US advance.

The US seemed intent upon storming into the Hayfa Street area at
about 11:20pm local time. More than 45 armored vehicles – Abrams
tanks and Bradley armored vehicles closed the street off completely
causing the situation there to grow very tense.

Resistance repulses US attack on Hayfa Street.

In a dispatch posted at 12:45am Monday morning local
time (11:45pm
Mecca time) the local correspondent of Mafkarat al-
Islam reported
that Resistance forces blunted a US assault on Hayfa
Street,
inflicting damage on the attacking Americans in the
processs. The
local correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that
the
Resistance pounded the Americans with 82mm mortar
shells, rocket-
propelled grenades, and advanced
SPG9s (Anyone know what an SPG9 is?)

The Resistance also managed to prevent attempts of US
foot soldiers
protected by armor to break into the area. Iraqi
sharpshooters
fired on the advancing Americans with pinpoint accuracy,
killing two
soldiers who were in the van of the American
attack.

So we can't get into an area less than 2800 m from
the Green Zone.

[happyslug]

6. SPG9- Recoilless Rifle introduced into Soviet Service in 1973

For Details see (Page 16)
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/weg.pdf

Russian 73-mm Recoilless Gun SPG-9 ____________________________________
Ammunition
Types
73-mm recoilless gun
RA HEAT
RA HE
Typical
Combat Load
INA
SYSTEM
Alternative Designations: INA
Date of Introduction: 1970
Proliferation: Widespread
Description:
Crew: 3
Caliber (mm): 73
Weight (kg):
Firing Position: 47.5
Travel Position: 47.5
Tripod: 12
Length (travel) (m): 2.11
Width (travel) (m): .99
Height (travel) (m): .80
Rifling: None
Breech Mechanism Type: Interrupted screw
Feed: Breech load
Traverse (°): 30 total
Elevation (°): -3 to +7
Rate of Fire (rd/min): 6
Emplacement/displacement time (min): 1
Fire From Inside Building: No
SIGHTS
Name: PGO-9
Type: Optical and iron
Magnification: Optical 4x, 10° field of view
Location: Left side
Sighting Range (m): 1,300
Night Sights Available: IR and passive night, PGN-9
VARIANTS
SPG-9D: Airborne version with detachable wheels
AMMUNITION
Range (m):
Maximum Effective:
HEAT: 1,000
HE: 1,300
Minimum: INA
Armor Penetration (mm) @ 1,000 m: 400 (HEAT any range)
Casualty Radius (m): INA
Length (mm): 1,000
Complete Round Weight (kg):
Rocket-Assisted HEAT: 3.5
Rocket-Assisted HE: 4
Muzzle Velocity (m/s): 435
Max Velocity w/rocket assist (m/s): 700
NOTES
The SPG-9 is a recoilless, smooth-bore, single-shot antitank weapon that fires both antiarmor and antipersonnel ammunition. Several generations of
night vision equipment are available for the SPG-9. It is manportable, but a truck or APC normally carries it. It must be dismounted and placed on its
tripod for firing.

[xchrom]

4. this is why the new hardliners wanting to put

increased pressure on the insurgents are NUTS -- the insurgents are without end.
they aren't just one group of people who oppose the u.s. -- it's a whole bunch of different folks at this point.
including people inside allawi's crew.

[saigon68]

5. people inside allawi's crew

will probably kill him sooner than later. But the US has apparently an endless supply of puppets