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Iraq-Jordan
U.S., Iraqi Forces Raid Baghdad Mosque
2004-11-20
Iraqi forces backed by American soldiers raided one of the country's most important Sunni mosques as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers - part of a crackdown on militant clerics opposed to the U.S.-led attack on Fallujah. Witnesses said at least three people were killed and 40 arrested. Congregants at the Abu Hanifa mosque said they heard explosions inside the building, apparently from stun grenades. Later, a reporter saw a computer and books, including a Quran, scattered on the floor of the imam's office near overturned furniture. U.S. soldiers were seen inside the mosque compound.
I'm surprised the reporter didn't describe the attack dogs brought inside the mosque.
American troops were seen securing the outer perimeter of the mosque, located in the Azamiyah district, and sealing it off before Iraqi police entered. At least 10 U.S. armored vehicles were parked at the mosque, along with two vehicles carrying about 40 Iraqi National Guardsmen, witnesses said. Five people were wounded in addition to the three deaths and roughly 40 arrests, according to members of the congregation. The U.S. military referred questions on the raid to the Iraqi government, which declined comment.
"We will say no more!"
The mosque, built around the tomb of the founder of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, has stood for 1250 years. When Hulagu sacked Baghdad in 1257, he used it to stable his horses, but otherwise it has escaped indignities from the many forces that have invaded Baghdad. It is the most important Sunni mosque in Baghdad, and a site of pilgrimage for Muslims worldwide.
The 2,587th holiest site, after all.
American troops have raided the mosque repeatedly since the fall of Baghdad in April 2003.
I'd guess it keeps appearing on hard drives taken from dead Bad Guyz...
U.S. troops also raided a Sunni mosque in Qaim, near the Syrian border, a cleric said Friday, calling it retaliation for opposing the Fallujah offensive. Imam Maudafar Abdul Wahab said his mosque was gathering arms and ammunition food and supplies for Fallujah, and that the Americans took about $2,000 worth of Iraqi currency meant for IEDs mosque repairs.
Yeah, sure. I'll believe anything anybody named Wahhab tells me...
Posted by:Steve White

#9  There really is a Mama Cass Blvd? Great voice.

In me youth my 3rd computer caught the Mama Cass Virus, at that primitive time nothing could be done except to forcibly try to remove the ham sandwich from the Winchester Drive.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-11-20 5:56:15 PM  

#8  Give the crackheads, pimps & ho's a few months; that mosque will be looking like the rest of Blue Hill Ave. & Melena Cass Blvd. in no time!
Posted by: Raj   2004-11-20 12:21:56 PM  

#7  The fine citizens of Roxbury no longer know how to handle a situation like this? My, how things have changed.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-11-20 9:37:42 AM  

#6  The Hanafi School of Islamic Jurisprudence? What a train wreck that must be. I'd hate to be the head of the class at that school.
Posted by: reality check   2004-11-20 9:18:24 AM  

#5  Mark,
Nice city, Boston. Good for tea parties.
BTW, I used to read a lot of Sufi Literature
in the good all days when I believed in Peace
and wisdom.
I wonder why there is such a thundering silence
from more "moderate Islamic circles" regarding bestial gihadi practices. Are we really witnessing the "silence of the Sheep" ?
Posted by: Elder of Zion   2004-11-20 8:53:06 AM  

#4  >Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence<

Their version of the strip-mall university? I wonder if this is the flog-em-to-death lot or the beheading jurisprudence crowd. Must make for interesting debates when they get together.
Posted by: davemac   2004-11-20 7:37:47 AM  

#3  Elder, I am, just not living in Bean Town right now. A lot of friends are very upset about this situation in Roxbury (section of Boston), as are many residents in Roxbury.
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-11-20 4:33:49 AM  

#2  Mark,
Are you a Bostonian ??
Posted by: Elder Of Zion   2004-11-20 4:09:55 AM  

#1  A mosque or Islamic centre, In Iraq, in Iran or in America are the hot beds of jihadic instigators. When the plotters & planners of jihad hatch their anti-western on slots within the confines of majority of Western nations, they do it tax free.

Imagine if we had an 'infidel centre's in the heart of Iran, and requested tax free status while we methodically organized the overthrow of the regimé of 7th century Islamists?

But our enemies are not only allowed but given grant money in the hundreds of thousands, via the U.S. tax payers, for simply completing a few lousy federal forms.

Now that's totally insane & self defeating.

I give you The City of Boston's Islamic Society of Boston (ISB.
Another massive monetary coup pulled off with the willing help of a number of Boston's leading politicians. Those which elected you say,'Thanks for nothing!'
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-11-20 1:18:18 AM  

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