#PacificWatch: LA accidentally blows up confiscated fireworks with Baghdad-style damage.@JCBliss

Jul 04, 2021, 01:31 AM

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Photo: Iraqi firefighters extinguish the flames on the remains of cars destroyed after a car bomb explosion, in South Baghdad during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The target was the local Iraqi police force causing eighteen casualties, of whom only two were police officers
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#PacificWatch: LA accidentally blows up confiscated fireworks with Baghdad-style damage.@JCBliss



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