>From: Steve Perry <SPerry at citypages.com>
>To: 'Doug Henwood ' <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] is this your liberation?
>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:41:47 -0500
>
>or how about this? it's pasted from an account now posted at the english al
>jazeera. (i haven't read all the morning posts yet; apologies if someone's
>pointed it out.)
>
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>
>Many Iraqi civilians and a US tank crew died today when a huge explosion
>destroyed around twenty houses in Baghdad, Al Jazeera channel reported. The
>explosion is the result of US marines attempting to decommission Iraqi
>munitions and rockets left by Saddam Hussein's army in the Atayfiyya
>residential quarter of the capital....
>
>Many local residents of Atafiyya pleaded with the US troops to remove the
>munitions far away from the district, fearing for their safety. However,
>these calls fell on deaf ears and the US soldiers fired a shell on the
>arsenal which exploded at once....
>
>[P]art of the arsenal contained over 200 missiles--Austrian in
>origin--and... the resulting explosion was like an inferno, emitting a
>terrifying explosion. The number of dead was increased by the fact that many
>other rockets flew off in all directions, some landing on houses of local
>residents. The number of dead and wounded cannot be estimated at this time
>due to the severity of the wreckage.