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http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/archives/000332.html No Apology, Car Bomb, "I am your God." by Dahr Jamail May 06, 2004 At roughly 7:30 this morning I was awakened by a huge explosion that rocked my hotel building. I can tell how close they are now by how much I feel them through the floor. If they are further away, they just rattle the windows a bit. This one I felt through the floor. The walls shook, and brought that usual feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach which accompanies the thought that several human beings have just been blown to pieces.  At approximately 7:30 a.m. today a car bomb was detonated at the 14th of July bridge checkpoint of the Coalition Provisional Authority, killing several Iraqis and a U.S. soldier. My colleague Dave Enders and I quickly gathered our cameras, notepads, and press credentials and caught a cab following the huge plume of black smoke billowing from the direction of the CPA. At the checkpoint near the 14th of July suspension bridge that spans the Tigris, huge flames reached into the morning sky from a car between two large concrete walls that lead to the checkpoint, roughly 15 meters away from the entrance to the

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