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2006-05-09 Iraq

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Posted by Glenmore 2006-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Iraqi army officials are engaging local leaders to gain more information about the mosque and activities occurring there.

One hopes they are engaging them.... vigorously

Posted by DanNY 2006-05-09 00:04|| 2006-05-09 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 The Iraqi police explosive ordinance disposal team arrived at the mosque to clear the ~~holy~~ holey criminal lair ~~site~~ of bombs and bomb making materials. The team dismantled six IEDs.

Posted by RD 2006-05-09 01:32|| 2006-05-09 01:32|| Front Page Top

#3 The "holy site" crap goes by the wayside once munitons are found within the precincts. This holy site ought to be bulldozed after all the "korans' are removed by "holy" men not affiliated with the Mosque.

I hope the "holey" men from this place are down town for some RAB style interviewing.

Posted by SPoD 2006-05-09 02:45|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-09 02:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Update (also CentCom - I'd link but I seem to break things when I try it in comments):

The explosion originally reported as occurring in the Sheik Abdel Kader Mosque {who runs this mosque? Who attends it? How big is it? How 'important'?} turned out to be a fire at the mosques school, which is located in an adjacent building.

According to Iraqi Army officials, at approximately 6:43 p.m. May 7, Iraqi firefighters responded to a fire in the mosques school in the Rusafa neighborhood of east Baghdad.

The firefighters notified the Iraqi Army they had discovered explosives in the parking lot of the school.

Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and an Iraqi police explosive ordnance disposal team, arrived and discovered an assortment of rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, C-4 explosives and other bomb-making materials in the school.

As reported earlier by the Iraqi Army, indications are the school was being used as an improvised-explosive devise production and staging area. Iraqi Soldiers reported finding several completed IEDs staged in vehicles and ready to be taken to an emplacement site. According to Iraqi Army officials, the guards at the mosque were observed by firefighters running away from the scene.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-05-09 07:16|| 2006-05-09 07:16|| Front Page Top

#5 a fire at the mosques school, which is located in an adjacent building.

A fire in the chemistry department's hazmat storage facility, no doubt. Funny the firemen didn't see the colored diamond upon arrival.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-09 08:00|| 2006-05-09 08:00|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if it would occur to these idiots to round up the worshipers and question them.

Posted by wxjames 2006-05-09 10:17|| 2006-05-09 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Bomb-making madrassas. Such good holy students.

Posted by Shuns Uleating3851 2006-05-09 12:14|| 2006-05-09 12:14|| Front Page Top

#8 For safety's sake, the firemen really should have detonated the IEDs in situ so as to avoid the possibility of accidental explosion during any attempts to disarm or move them.

Posted by Zenster 2006-05-09 15:10|| 2006-05-09 15:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Just being good muslim students and doing what their book says. This is normal Talab/A.Q. islamic teaching at work.

Posted by SPoD 2006-05-09 17:11|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-09 17:11|| Front Page Top

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