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To: LindyBill who started this subject	1/18/2004 12:35:48 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 793843

A description, with a picture, of the Baghdad blast this morning. Scroll down for the picture. From a Military Blog. a blast shook the Green Zone at just about 8 this morning. It was loud enough for everyone to recognize it was a serious explosion, but didn't carry with it the concussion which would indicate it was terribly close. In the event, it was at what is known as the North Gate; about a mile away from the Palace in which I work. It was a car bomb which is known in military parlance as a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device - VBIED. My first instinct was to grab my flak jacket and my camera and go looking for it; but wiser heads prevailed, so I waited about 20 minutes, THEN went out and looked for it. The scene is too grisly to recount even in words, much less in the pictures I took to add to the record the Combat Camera crews were building for investigative and intelligence purposes. Suffice it to say that the blast was so powerful the vehicle which carried it was completely vaporized. It literally blew the razors off the razor wire which was nearby. It knocked over concrete flower pots - perhaps two cubic meters - 200 meters away. Here is a photo of the crater it left: mullings.com The engine of the vehicle was found blown through the rear window of another destroyed vehicle about 50 meters to the left of this photo.

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