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"Another bomb in Iraq"

We've got CNN on down here at work - some guy was giving a speech on the progress of the war at the UN HQ in Baghdad and then the cameras went black and there was a massive power cut. All I can hear is screaming in the background. It was a bomb. I can't believe they're showing this footage.

I seem to recall reading that a lot of the middle eastern terror/freedom fighting groups (take your pick depending on your ideaology) regard the UN as little more than a puppet of the west, and as such it makes a valid target. So this could be Islamic radicals of one flavour or another seeing themselves as making good on the threat to cause as much disruption to the occupying western powers.

Or, to put it another way, radical terrorists are just as capable of committing an atrocity based on poor intelligence (both militarily and on a more human level...). I would think that whomever did this is more likely to be from one of the more obscure terror/freedom groups.

Of course, all of the above could entirely wrong...

It was a suicide bomber, not a car bomb, apparently.

I simply don't understand the reasoning behind this attack.

Just put on Sky News. Nothing I don't really know, so off it goes :|

You lot keep me posted in case there's any updates.

Oh, Sky just replayed the clip. Sounded pretty horrific.

Unbeliever wrote:
That's why i'm so baffled by it. What is going on?
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Previously it has been US bases and soldiers under attack. Not a good thing by anyone's definition.
But nothing to do with the UN, who weren't involved in any of the invasion or subsequent "rebuilding".

This is really, really strange.

Just playing Devil's Advocate.

Alistair Campbell gives testimony concerning the validity of invading Iraq, doubts surface. Question raised in the press, Blair under more and more scrutiny over this.
Suddenly?
"BOMB BLAST!!! PEOPLE KILLED!!!!"
A stern Blair on television "Iraq poses a significant threat, as can be seen by the acts of recent days not to mention the terrible targetting of soldiers over the past few weeks."
Dumb public suddenly thinks "Well hey, looks like we did the right thing!"

And nobody says "Well actually, it's looking more and more like we had no reason to be there at all, and this wouldn't be happening if Blair was accountable for leading his country into an illegal invasion designed to oust a leadership once considered friendly to Western interests, to the point where we ignored the gassing of Kurds in 1988"

Goatboy wrote:
> Why the UN?
> This invasion was not sanctioned by them at all. It was a purely US
> & UK thing.
> This makes no sense

That's why i'm so baffled by it. What is going on?

Goatboy wrote:
> Which means Alistair Campbell's evidence in The Hutton inquiry gets
> relegated to 2nd or 3rd place in the news.

Damn them to Hades. My conspiracy theory mind can't possibly believe that this is a sordid attempt to deflect media attention over here. It's just too horrific to think about.

Why the UN?
This invasion was not sanctioned by them at all. It was a purely US & UK thing.
This makes no sense

Goatboy wrote:
> http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD
> /meast/08/19/sprj.irq.main/index.html
>
> Suspected car-bomb.
> Oh dear, looks like hostilities didn't cease on May 1st after all.
> Anyone know how many servicemen have been killed since the war ended?

More than those who lost their lives in the actual "war".