“Strong explosions were heard late Monday in central Baghdad, and it appeared the blasts were coming from the western side of the Tigris River.

Five blasts shook the area in quick succession about 9:10 p.m. The U.S. military command had no information on the incident.” —Washington Post. Perhaps they ‘had no information’; if the situation is dire enough, the military may simply repress the news. How would we know? After all, journalists were fiercely excluded by a military cordon from the site of the downed helicopter over the weekend, according to reporters I heard interviewed on NPR.