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| Coordinated Blasts Hit Iraqi Churches |
| 2004-08-01 |
| I see Lashkar e-Jhangvi's arrived in Iraq... A series of coordinated bombings targeted churches in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul during evening services Sunday, wounding at least 20 people in the first attacks on Christian places of worship in Iraq's 15-month insurgency. The church attacks came amid a flurry of other bombings in and around the two cities that killed at least 10 Iraqis and an American soldier. The U.S. military confirmed two other explosions in Baghdad in the evening, but their target was not immediately clear. The church attacks in Baghdad appeared to be car bombs. The two blasts exploded just minutes apart outside two nearby churches — one Armenian and one Catholic — in the Karada neighborhood. Massive plumes of black smoke poured into the evening sky over the city as firefighters struggled to put out flames leaping from the front of the Armenian church and several blackened cars. "I saw injured women and children and men, the church's glass shattered everywhere. There's glass all over the floor," said Juliette Agob, who was inside the Armenian church during the first explosion. At nearly the same time, two blasts struck outside a church in Mosul and a third blast hit a bridge, Iraqi officials said. There was no immediate word on casualties. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 'coordinated bombings' speaks to the bloody hand of radical Iran. Right after Bush wins those bastards will pay for all the terror they inflicted on the globe since 1979. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-08-01 11:20:36 PM |
| #4 Somehow we're going to have to drag Islam into the 21st Century where "submission to God" no longer means "submission to man." Whether there'll be any Muslims left after we do it, of course, is an open question. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-08-01 4:45:45 PM |
| #3 Update on casualties: 6 women, 2 children dead, quite a few more badly burned (from the Catholic church). Any questions? |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2004-08-01 4:25:36 PM |
| #2 Sounds like the First Baptist Reds had a good outing against the Iraqi Lutherans gals team. |
| Posted by: Buford T Justice 2004-08-01 4:14:54 PM |
| #1 OK - anyone now still doesn't believe this is an Islam ist racist war against all other cultures? These guys want a crusade against them because they were misled as to the "glory" of the last one. They'd best beware or they may get what they asked for, but not what they expected. Push us far enough and the Prophet's rock will be plasma and glass, hard to turn and worship that 5 times a day. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2004-08-01 4:11:53 PM |