Hell of a boom again tonight in Mess-O-Potamia. Big bomb, big fire and fire-fights in downtown Bagdad.
Heard it on Faux (with pictures), but then the story seemed to dissapear... I couldn't even find web links.
BUT, 'Google - News' was busy headlineing NYT's 'Praise for 'W' saving the middle east and wondering why he was acting so humble. For Bush, No Boasts, but a Taste of Vindication
Guess the WH trainers finally got a leash that fit.
Anyhow, I kept looking for more on what, to me, appeared to be a big story...
- Fox News... crashed XP for the first time.
- CNN... nada
- Google News search "Bagdad" nada
Then I thought that maybe I was being 'Free Pressed'!!!
So I went to bbc.co.uk and sure enough there it was.
Baghdad rocked by 'suicide blast'
Wednesday, 9 March, 2005, 04:57 GMT
The BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says the feeling in Iraq is that the tempo of insurgent attacks against the US-backed authorities is rising again after a lull during February in the wake of elections.
The political process in Iraq is currently stagnant during efforts to form a government, our correspondent adds, allowing insurgents the opportunity to renew attacks.
Now if I could only relate GMT to PST I'd know if I'd earned my first tin foil hat. please advise