ZELL MILLER!
"But local Shiite residents have a very different take on what happened.
"The people that died were Wahhabis, and they were putting a bomb in the car," says Abu Hussein, declining to give his full name. "No one fired RPGs at them. We had nothing to do with what happened."
The Shiites say that there have always been some Wahhabis living in the area, but they have grown more assertive since Saddam Hussein's downfall in April.
The Iraqi police are investigating the causes of the explosion, but the Shiite view that Islamic militants accidentally blew themselves up has some credence, according to Lt. Col. Frank Sherman of Boston, the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, 13th Armor Brigade.
"The explosion was not caused by a fired RPG," he says. "The school roof is too close; the rockets would not have had time to arm."
Nonetheless, RPG fragments were recovered by the police, he adds, suggesting that it may have been a bomb of jerry-built RPG rounds of the type regularly used by militants against coalition troops."
It seems it probably was Sunni terrorists blowing themselves up while trying to build a bomb to use against our troops. Funny how the Sunnis have tried to turn it around and blame the Shiites.
This is a terrible fact. Not to face it, impairs the ability to deal with it.
"Condemn the attack but don't blame people at random and don't suspect the Shiite clerics," Sheikh Ahmed Dabboush, a prominent Sunni cleric, tells the crowd using a loudspeaker. "Some Shiite movements are accused of these acts and they must be stopped. But we must continue living with the Shiites. and we must continue the harmony of Shiites and Sunnis and Arabs and Kurds."
God bless you Sheikh Ahmed Dabboush, doing the Lords work.