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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 09:36 AM
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Breaking - massive explosion at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad
Pakistan. This hotel is heavily guarded. BBC International is showing live coverage. Mostly foreigners stay in this hotel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7627135.stm
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 09:41 AM
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1. This is massive
Edited on Sat Sep-20-08 09:42 AM by malaise
Huge fire. Live coverage now on GEM$NBC.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 09:44 AM
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4. cnn.com is saying at least 20 dead.
(still trying to get a live feed)
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 09:50 AM
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5. Got the live stream...
It's showing local TV at the scene. Not that I can understand what is being said, since it is in another language. Ok, CNN, at least give us an English translator!
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 09:43 AM
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2. Live streaming on cnn.com, too -- although I'm only getting a black screen. Anybody else?
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 09:51 AM
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6. I'm watching on BBC
The fire is spreading. Thankfully one side of the building isn't burning...yet.
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bluesmail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 09:43 AM
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3. War everywhere, Thanks Dick.
Edited on Sat Sep-20-08 09:44 AM by bluesmail
You POS You sociopath. Maybe I should thank Exxon Mobil while I'm at it.
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 10:02 AM
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7. omg. How terrible. Those poor people.
:cry:
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 10:04 AM
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8. Ann Curry happens to be there and is reporting now.
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Wilber_Stool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 10:04 AM
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9. And this is what
Edited on Sat Sep-20-08 10:05 AM by Wilber_Stool
using drone planes to kill woman and children will get you. Revenge.
Whole building engulfed in fire. On MSNBC now.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 10:15 AM
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10. True but I don't see how any attack this large
could have reached such a guarded facility without army knowledge. Don't rule out a very upset Mushie.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 10:20 AM
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12. Watching now, is that a crater outside the hotel?
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dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 10:44 AM
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14. According to Ann Curry on the scene
It was a very large truck bomb, complete with crator and pieces of the truck. MSNBC has better coverage than CNN @ the movement.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:10 PM
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15. Yes - look at the size of that crater
BBC says the building is close to collapse. Says Who?

What a convenient fire. CHAOS everywhere.
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Wilber_Stool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 10:32 AM
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13. Have the cleaning staff
smuggle small quantities of explosives into critical places over a long period of time. Setup a command RF detonator and BOOM.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:14 PM
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17. The new civilian President delivered his first address a few hours
Edited on Sat Sep-20-08 12:17 PM by malaise
before this happened. When it's Pakistan, never rule out the army. Someone will have to explain how something this massive managed to pass the high levels of security in the area for the Parliamentary session and the party that followed.

I always start with who benefits from this massive fire at a Western hotel...which is being described on BBC as Pakistan's 9/11.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7627135.stm

add link.
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Wilber_Stool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:19 PM
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19. I posted befor I knew
that it was a truck bomb.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 10:16 AM
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11. Bingo
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:12 PM
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16. screwn
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MadrasT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:17 PM
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18. Don't like the sound of this
From msnbc.com:

The method carried out in the blast also "bears all the hallmarks of an attack by al-Qaida," one senior terrorism official told NBC News.
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MadrasT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:19 PM
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20. Oh, this is lovely
:sarcasm:



Pakistani protesters burn U.S. flags to condemn
recent U.S. strikes in Pakistani territory along
Afghanistan border, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008 in Karachi, Pakistan.
8:44 a.m. ET, 9/19/08
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tuckessee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:20 PM
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21. I wonder whom the CIA/ISI was trying to kill? n/t
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:26 PM
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22. thinking that it could only be the CIA/ISM is as limited as thinking
that it only Al-Qaeda conducts terrorist attacks. In fact, it's exactly the same mode of thought.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 12:29 PM
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23. MSNBC about to cover this
this was a LARGE bomb

Worry that AQ did it... damn I know the busihies have one more war in them!
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