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| Guilty or Not, U.S. Is Blamed in Mosque Blast |
| 2003-07-04 |
| NY Times - Reg Rqrd ALLUJA, Iraq, July 1 — At the graves, dust swirled and shovels scraped, but otherwise all was still. Men heaved dirt and rocks into five newly dug holes, occupied by five newly filled coffins. A flag proclaimed, "There is no God but God," but almost no one spoke. But if the eye was quiet, around it a storm raged. In the procession that had brought the coffins to the graveyard, and in the parking lot nearby, angry men fired AK-47's into the air in competitive bursts of outrage. One rode a bicycle, steering with one hand, shooting with the other. They vowed revenge for the deaths of the five men, who were among as many as nine — including the imam — who local people said were killed Monday night in an explosion at a mosque here, 35 miles west of Baghdad. They said an American aircraft had fired a missile into the building, reducing two rooms to rubble and killing the men, who had gathered for Koranic study inside. The explosion came before another day of violence in Iraq, in which six American soldiers were wounded in two separate attacks. [Page A16.] The wounded man had mentioned nothing about an aircraft, his brother said, yet he was convinced that the Americans were responsible. The Americans are always responsible - couldn't be the bomb making class got cut short! "More than five or six eyewitnesses saw the warplane shooting a missile at the mosque," he said. "For sure this was the Americans' action." Capt. John Ives, head of the government support team of the Second Brigade, Third Infantry Division in Falluja, vehemently denied that, saying that blast analysis conducted by American troops suggested that it had come from within the leveled rooms. He said there were no aircraft flying in the area at the time of the explosion Accounts from two different neighbors ...Both said that on a quiet night, there had been no sound of an aircraft before the explosion shook the block. "All the windows were open and we heard no aircraft," the woman who did not want to be identified said. "If a missile had been shot by an aircraft, it would be obvious; everyone would know it." Expect those busy making bombs like Keebler elves in "religious" support of the Jihad Both women had heard rumors that explosives were being stored at the mosque, and both said there were rumors it had become a locus of anti-American resistance. We definitely need to get the Iraqqi police and Army up and running again to share some of the groundless blame for exploding mosques!! But that would be our fault for not having the foresight to warn the terrorists wannbes that BOMBS BLOW UP!!!! |
| Posted by:Fiddler |