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Twenty killed in Iraq as insurgents target Shiite mosques during Ashoura |
2005-02-19 |
![]() In the first suicide attack, a man wearing an explosives- packed vest merged into a crowd near a mosque in the Doura area of southwestern Baghdad and blew himself up, survivors said. The blast killed 15 people and wounded 33, Yarmouk hospital said. Soon afterwards, an explosion shook a second Shiite mosque in western Baghdad, the U.S. military and police sources said. Police said two suicide bombers had approached a crowd outside the mosque. They were spotted by police, who shot them, but one still blew himself up, killing at least two people. Iraq's national security adviser, Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, told CNN he believed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant who is Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, was behind the attacks. |
Posted by:Fred |
#7 If I'm a muslim, MY Mosque is sacred and holy. You're mosque is a latrine. |
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-02-19 4:36:19 PM |
#6 It's so funny to remember how everyone freaked out that the US might fire on mosques during this war, and yet the arabs have no problem blowing them up to kill each other. Naahh, to the types that were all up in arms over the possibility of mosque damage due to U.S. fire, the Arabs are beyond reproach; it's only the U.S. that is worth criticizing. |
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-19 3:25:10 PM |
#5 It's so funny to remember how everyone freaked out that the US might fire on mosques during this war, and yet the arabs have no problem blowing them up to kill each other. That tells me they don't really consider them sacred after all. |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2005-02-19 10:33:04 AM |
#4 My surprise meter pegged last night when Dan Blather actually called these bombers TERRORISTS, not insurgents. I wonder what changed over at CBS. |
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-02-19 8:50:09 AM |
#3 more graduates of the wahabbi education system--i always said that if these people had thick lips-big kinky hair-black skin-and a bone through their noses-they would be re-colonized with a joyless abandon by the civilized races bringing the moral benefits of a superior way of life--they are the equivalent of a pack of banchees on the savannah |
Posted by: SON OF TOLUI 2005-02-19 4:03:59 AM |
#2 Mojo---when I see them doing the bleeding scalp wound thing to kids it gives me the creeps. |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-02-19 1:44:30 AM |
#1 Gimme that old time religion... |
Posted by: mojo 2005-02-19 1:24:29 AM |