Alive in Baghdad - Moments After the Firdos Square Bombings

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Description: Visit http://www.aliveinbaghdad.org each Monday for new videos about life in Iraq! Here is the brief update. There is confusion over the number of casualties. The number reported by the US Military is nearly the same number we received from an Iraqi Police (IP) officer who was involved in firing on the second vehicle, which exploded near the Mosque in Firdos Square. He claimed there were approximately 4 killed and 16 wounded at that time. The assertion that the attack was intended to take over the Palestine Hotel was not substantiated by any of the IPs or PSDs (private security) who we spoke with that were on the scene. He believed this attack to be similar to previous attacks, where the first bomb is intended to bring IPs and other security forces, and subsequent bombings are used to inflict mass casualties on the response teams. Despite the loud gunfire long after the attack, no gunmen other than the IPs were reported to be in the streets. One BBC colleague reported to me that, "The Iraqi Police tend to be quite trigger-happy." Also, my fixer overheard an IP shouting "Be careful they are shooting everyone." We now believe "they" almost certainly means other IPs, although we don't have a first-hand report of IPs firing on each other. There is still some confusion over the carbombings. We received an eyewitness report from a PSD that the first car was a Black Jeep Cherokee, it now appears this may have been the second vehicle, as the AP reports the first car was a white vehicle. [editor's note: This video is scenes from the aftermath a few blocks away from the bombing, the chaotic scenes on the street, etc. filmed on 10/24/05]
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gygapyrate45 ::: Favorites wow a bunch of smoke and some warning shots (if a vehicle gets too close to a checkpoint or a police convoy, after an attack, then iraqi police will fire shots to scare them away. car bombs anyone? i was in iraq for 16 months and i have way better videos than this shit. 07-08-29 00:19:18 _____________________________________________________
undead147 ::: Favorites PLEASE DON'T READ THIS you will die in seven days if you don't post this comment on 10 videos in the next hour. if you do, tommorrow will be the best day of your life 07-08-28 20:02:13 _____________________________________________________
fcukthebox ::: Favorites YA-ALLAH why must we muslims stand by and watch such a beautifull country Iraq be destroyed by the west!!! 07-06-09 15:59:53 _____________________________________________________
karma52 ::: Favorites Salaam!! Thanks and stay safe.Allahu Akbar!! Free Iraq!! 07-06-09 04:36:47 _____________________________________________________
pennywisedclown ::: Favorites You shit faced arab fucks.....Can't you see? your god hates you & that's why you are so ugly smelly and brown...the problem is the more we and our American brothers kill you the more you breed you are a plague to mankind..... 07-06-08 07:40:28 _____________________________________________________
shadowno9 ::: Favorites Penny wised clown, very self -explanatory, YOU ARE A CLOWN. 07-06-08 19:40:36 _____________________________________________________
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fcukthebox ::: Favorites You are a kaffir non believer may allah burn you alive and send you to hell where you burn forever go to hell you kaffir 07-06-09 15:58:30 _____________________________________________________
nemanjaaa ::: Favorites fuck you pennywisedclown instead of preaching your hate speech you could be contributing to help form a solution ,but instead you add on to the problem. 07-08-20 16:56:07 _____________________________________________________
carovego ::: Favorites 209 fearful souls (or not)lending voyeurist witnessing to the slander of humans. Clueless in us..with belly fulls..brain cells dying in front of stupid box..perfect subjects. Watch in silence..in the silence of their individual lives.... 07-06-03 01:59:00 _____________________________________________________