Was it a bomb or a rocket ?

[kentuck]

I recall how the Vietnamese "helpers" would walk off the distance in the daytime and the rockets would zero in at night and people wondered how they were so accurate? Is this what happened in Mosul? Or was there a bomb planted in the mess hall? Has there been any more info on this?

[bossfish]

1. From the little bit I have read...

...it may have been a bomb inside the facility.

Loaded with ball bearings or BBs.

Makes sense to me, it would seem a mortar or RPG wouldn't have been as lethal, but I really don't know much about ordnance.

[alfredo]

2. They found part of a torso with indications of plastic

explosives strapped to it. The bomber has been ID'ed as a 24 year old man.

Who was in charge of security there?

[leftchick]

3. saying they found a "torso" = suicide bomber?

it is hard to tell through the controlled message of the military...

<snip>

Investigators have found evidence of a suicide bomb, including a backpack and parts of a torso at the scene, ABC News reported. A report yesterday by a Richmond Times-Dispatch correspondent inside the tent suggested that rockets had been fired at the facility. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is aiding in the investigation, Cable News Network said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aLgtM7ZLRC2g&refer=us

[Cooley Hurd]

4. How many more are amongst our military right now...

...waiting to strike?:scared: This might've been a first shot...:(

I'm a bit surprised that they're letting Iraq civilians feed our troops. Another instance of conducting a war "on the cheap?":shrug:

[Jesus H. Christ]

6. If it were a suicide bomber...

a torso would be the last thing they'd find.

[leftchick]

9. that was my thought...

more BS from the US...

[flamingyouth]

5. There is very little news coming out about this

In fact, we continue to wait on pins and needles about the whereabouts of one my employee's boyfriend, part of the Stryker Brigade from Fort Lewis. Still no word. Given how stressed I am about it, I cannot even fathom how the families must feel. :cry:

[idiosyncratic]

7. Yesterday some "organization" claimed credit; said it was a suicide

bomber. I heard that on NPR in the morning.

Wonder why the military is so reluctant to admit THIS is how the massacre happend? :cry:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. it was a bomb either planted in the mess tent or an iraqi worker who......

was packed with C4 explosives...that's what i've gleamed from all the BS coming to us from MSM