Toilet bombed in USA embassy in Athens. Fitting target, or just happened to hit there.

uppityperson

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:38 AM
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Toilet bombed in USA embassy in Athens. Fitting target, or just happened to hit there.

Edited on Fri Jan-12-07 01:51 AM by uppityperson

While they have not said who shot/flung/whatevered the bomb there, was the toilet chosen on purpose to make a statement, or was it coincidence that the rocket landed there?

I think coincidence, but still, it was an odd thought, and yes, it is being called terrorism.

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file83

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:42 AM
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1. What would it be a "coincidence" with? Do you mean "ironic"?

Other than Bush having "shit" for brains, I don't see any coincidence. Irony, maybe.

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uppityperson

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:46 AM
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3. edited and ironic.

meant coincidence that it just happened to land there or aimed on purpose to make a statement about mrbush

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Kelly Rupert

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:47 AM
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4. I'd be damn impressed with anyone that could hit a toilet with a rocket. n/t

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uppityperson

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:50 AM
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6. found a picture, was quite some shooting.

A broken window, upper left, is seen behind the banner of the U.S. Embassy in Athens early Friday. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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file83

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:52 AM
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7. Sounds like just a random shot. There would be no purpose in shooting the shitter...

I'm sure they would have much rather have hit some other part of the building.

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bananarepublican

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:17 AM
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12. "Move along. Nothing to see here. Just a freeper unloading his thoughts." n/t

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file83

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:24 AM
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13. Huh? Who are you quoting?

Who are you calling a freeper?

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uppityperson

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:29 AM
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16. think poster meant the bomb in the toilet=freeper unloading thoughts.

why does this toilet bit amuse me? Terrorize the americans by bombing their toilets. I bet they are rolling their eyes at where it ended up.

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bananarepublican

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:41 AM
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21. I't's the smoking combined with the excess mental methane that does it! (Thanks 'uppity..') n/t

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file83

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:47 AM
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23. I get the joke now...

:rofl:

Freeper...dumping his thoughts where they belong: the shitter.

I can't believe how far over my head that joke went...LOL.

:thumbsup:

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bananarepublican

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Fri Jan-12-07 10:30 PM
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34. Freepers are now terrorizing their own *rse-holes! Karma rules supreme! n/t

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Kelly Rupert

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:44 AM
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2. What kind of coincidence?

I don't know where you're going with that.

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uppityperson

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:47 AM
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5. edited, meant was it aimed there on purpose (toilet) or chance it landed there

what with mrbush's plans and brain being in the toilet. Was it a statement "mrbush, we will bomb you as you sit in your toilet office" or just landed there?

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file83

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:54 AM
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8. Maybe they were trying to hit something near it and missed...

...What is more important is that this is a direct reactionary event to the US attacking the Iranian Embassy last night. It'll be interesting to see how this unfolds in the next few days.

Wonder if this will be the hip new thing to do around the world: Attacking US Embassies?

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uppityperson

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:56 AM
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9. Indeed. Direct reaction to Mr.bush's shit or not.

On we go.

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lady lib

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:27 AM
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15. And did the shit hit the fan? Because it sure did here.

(Sorry, some idiot had to make that joke. Might as well be me :))

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file83

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:48 AM
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24. OMG - LOL!! That joke has been waiting for this particular moment in history...

...perfect. :rofl:

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file83

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:54 AM
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26. Maybe the terrorists are sick of our shit...

...da-dun-TSSS.

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TomInTib

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:05 AM
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10. This has got to be one of the weirdest non-direct fire hits, ever

How symbolic can it get?

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uppityperson

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:16 AM
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11. Hi Tom, I'm glad someone gets what I was getting at

not expressing myself well, but thanks for getting it. Odd, isn't it.

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TomInTib

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:27 AM
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14. Odd, hell...

I have been around all kinds of unbelievable, head-scratching carnage regarding projectiles and fire-power. But this one wins the prize.

They are now claiming that this was some kind of projectile fired from street level.

"This is an act of terrorism. We don't know where from," Attica Police Chief Asimakis Golfis said. "There was a shell that exploded in the toilets of the building ... It was fired from street level."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GREECE_US_EMBASSY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME

Now I dare anyone here to tell me prezactly how any projectile could be fired from street level, punch thru a window maybe 30 feet above the street, and end up in a toilet.

Or maybe it was the hand of...

SATAN?

This is one strange tale.

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uppityperson

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:31 AM
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17. sounds like whatever it was wasn't much of a powered projectile

I keep getting hung up on the whole terrorize by bombing toilet bit.

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TomInTib

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:34 AM
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19. Do not overlook the Athens angle

Birthplace of Democracy and all that.

This whole thing smells to high heaven.

Just does not wash.

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uppityperson

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:36 AM
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20. The people have spoken

and have dumped it in the can.

Yeah, seems like probably something minor, though will have to wait and see what they find, who claims it (if any) and do any other embassies get bombed too.

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XemaSab

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:34 AM
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18. From what I've heard about the toilets in Greece

I'm wondering "How could they tell?" :P

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TomInTib

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:44 AM
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22. Damn, that is funny...

One of the first things that I thought when I saw this earlier was, "Well, that's a start".

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MiniMe

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:52 AM
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25. From another post, * called the ISG report a "flaming turd", this could explain it all

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3103002

Somebody must have thrown the Iraq Study Group report down the toilet in the Embassy

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file83

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:55 AM
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27. All the latenight talkshows tommorow are going to have a hay day with this...

...this is just too easy!

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GreenZoneLT

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Fri Jan-12-07 07:18 AM
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29. Nice accidental coinage

You've conflated "making hay" and "heyday" for a not-bad neologism.

"Have a hay day with it, pal."

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Cobalt-60

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Fri Jan-12-07 05:52 AM
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28. It must have been a low flow toilet

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lady lib

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Fri Jan-12-07 11:43 AM
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30. So do we have to attack Greece now

in retribution for the BIG TOILET BOMBING OF 2007 or can we just send in some plumbers to, um, flush out the bad guys?

;)

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uppityperson

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Fri Jan-12-07 11:59 AM
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31. It can be the new rallying cry "after the toilet bomb, everything changed!"

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lady lib

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Fri Jan-12-07 12:12 PM
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32. LOL!

Let's spend heaping piles of tax dollars - give or take a billion for starters - for "Operation Clean Latrine."

:rofl:

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kineneb

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Fri Jan-12-07 12:16 PM
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33. ahh, Karma.

sometimes the universe speaks in curious ways... accidental or intentional, the landing place speaks volumes.

from somewhere, Issac Newton is smiling (what goes up must come down)
:evilgrin:

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