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Big bomb maybe
Prove it is Fallujah. I hear voices saying "fire in the hole" which is a typical term for construction and demolition personnel using explosives to blow up rocks and/or the ground so it will be prepared for construction work. The terrain could be any of several hundred places in America, Mexico or South America. The skeptic in me says this is not Fallujah. Can you prove your claim? Just, Thinker
Definitely Not Fallujah!
The explosion on the video is less than two tenths of a mile away. I know this because the sound takes less than a second to reach the camera. At the speed sound travels about 1116 per second, the explosion cannot be more than about 1200 feet away. No way is that Fallujah!
Typical liberal propaganda
That was obviously a controlled detonation by EOD of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction that our brave soldiers have contend with every day. Too bad we just voted for people who don't believe these exist.
Typical is correct
They would actually like us to believe, if they could pull it off, that this was the bombing of an elementary school in full session. It most definitely is a controlled explosion. Fire in the hole is repeated 3 times, and ignition occurs promptly upon the third utterance. The explosion is very close based upon how long it takes for the shockwave to reach the camera. The most interesting thing to me is what sounds like a decent sized piece of shrapnel that goes whizzing by the camera shortly after the shockwave passes. Sounds like a big mosquito. That explosion, my friends, is the sound of freedom!
Definitely Not Fallujah? Mr. V is wrong about how to determine the distance from the explosion.
Mr. V indicates that he knows how far away the explosion was because of the time that it took to hear the explosion after the flash was seen. He assumes that the speed of sound for the observed time would determine the distance. In reality, a shock wave, produced by a stronge explosion, tavels at several times the speed of sound. The sudden but short duration wind observed in the video indicates that the wave was still a shock wave rather than a much weaker sound wave.
Big Explosion outside of Fallujah
If I had to guess they were blowing up all of the left over ammunition that the terrorist did not use, and nikkofly you are right, that buzzing sound was most likely a good sized piece shrapnel buzzing on by, I thought it was someone speaking, and I also heard the '3' fire in the hole calls prior to the snap of the ? cord they use to initiate these explosions. Thanks to everyone who has or is serving in the military, GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU AND KEEP YOU SAFE, from a grateful American Citizen/ oooooof
Big BOmb on Fallujah?
After the explosion I thought I heard rounds cooking off in the background,anyone else hear this too?? I also noticed the trench line that was visible leading out to could have been the dump area but I am not certain.
Really, it's not Fallujah
Responding to evansp - You are correct, shock waves do travel faster than sound, but even a very strong shock wave only travels at about Mach 2 (twice as fast as sound). The explosion still could not be more than half a mile away, even if it was very large.
It is probably the ASP just south of Fallujah
If this video was taken anywhere near Fallujah it was probably at demolition range for the ammunition supply depot just south of Fallujah (8km on the other side of the river). It is known as Paladin a.k.a ASP Rock. The Army Corps of Engineers are tasked to destroy the ammunition there and usually do one or two 50-100 ton control blasts a day there. Before the war began Saddam Hussein consolidated all the ammunition from other ASPs on the Saudi, Kuwaiti, Iranian, Syrian and Turkish borders and put them in the ASPs near the capital (Al QaQa and Paladin) in preparation for use by Sunni insurgents.
Distance from the camera
The normal safe distance people have to be from an explosion this size is between 2 and 3 kilometers...they may have had the camera set up a little closer to the explosion than they were at physically, but I would estimate that it was at least 1 kilometer away from where the camera was placed.