by Fearless » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:50 pm
From TBR News, which publishes Voice of the Whitehouse. The names of the 300 dead are at the link. I haven't been able to confirm this with any other source. Thread was promptly deleted at DU. Someone had posted a link to the story where the base spokesman said there were no injuries, but the thread was gone before I could get the link.<br><br>Another Disastrous Coverup<br><br>Forward Base Falcon Disaster<br><br>by Brian Harring <br><br>Late on the evening of October 10, 2006, Iraqi resistance groups lobbed mortar and rocket rounds into the immense ‘Forward Base Falcon,’ the largest American military base in Iraq, located 13 km south of the Green Zone in Baghdad. In addition to accurate mortar fire, Grad and Katyusha rockets were also used. <br><br>Falcon base was designed to house a large contingent of American troops, mostly drawn from the 4th Infantry Division, stationed at Fr. Bliss, Texas. At the time of the attack, there were approximately 3000 men inside the camp, which also was filled with ammunition supplies, fuel, tanks and vehicles. <br><br>Iraqi contractors had assisted in the construction of the camp, which occupied nearly a square mile and was surrounded with guard tower-studded high concrete walls, and it is now apparent that the Resistance movement had been given important targets from “sources familiar with the layout” of the base. <br><br>After the initial shelling, fuel and ammunition stores began to erupt with massive explosions that could be heard, and seen, miles away inside the Green Zone where U.S. military and diplomatic units were heavily guarded. <br><br>The explosions, all of them termed “immense” by BBC reporters, continued throughout the night. <br><br>...<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2547.htm#001" target="top">TBR News</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=fearless@rigorousintuition>Fearless</A> at: 10/21/06 8:15 pm<br></i>