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Israeli Police Storm Disputed Holy Site
Associated Press ^ | 2 Apr 04 | Not listed

Posted on 04/02/2004 4:00:34 AM PST by SkyPilot

JERUSALEM - Israeli police stormed a disputed Jerusalem holy site after Muslim prayers on Friday and thousands of worshippers barricaded themselves in the mosque.

Police fired plastic bullets, stun grenades and tear gas in an attempt to disperse hundreds of Palestinian stone throwers. At least six people were wounded.

Officers entered the Al Aqsa Mosque compound after Muslim worshippers threw stones at police deployed nearby, police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.

Mohammed Hussein, a senior official in the Islamic Trust, which administers the mosque compound, tried to calm the situation, urging worshippers to go home, witnesses said. Most left, but several hundred stone throwers remained behind.

The mosque compound is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, site of biblical Jewish temples. The walled site is revered by Muslims and Jews and is one of the flashpoints in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alaksa; domeoftherock; israel; templemount; zionist
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This could be a very important event.
1 posted on 04/02/2004 4:00:35 AM PST by SkyPilot
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2 posted on 04/02/2004 4:01:43 AM PST by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: SkyPilot
The headline is slanted. The Temple Mount is anything but "disputed." Jewish claims to it pre-date Islam by thousands of years.
3 posted on 04/02/2004 4:04:15 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
What do you expect from militants and insurgents at AP except that they help their terrorist friends.
4 posted on 04/02/2004 4:08:31 AM PST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
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To: goldstategop
Exactly..
5 posted on 04/02/2004 4:13:43 AM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: SkyPilot
The mosque compound is known to Jews as the Temple Mount

"Known to Jews"?

Like we made it up.

What is it known to Christians as, Mr. AP "Reporter"?

ML/NJ

6 posted on 04/02/2004 4:21:26 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: SkyPilot
I hate the PLO Buttkissing AP!!

How about a non-prejudiced headline you evil jerks:

"Isreali Police disperse Stonethrowing Mob in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound."
7 posted on 04/02/2004 4:27:00 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate (A vote for JF'nK is a vote for Peace in our Time!)
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To: goldstategop
The headline is slanted. The Temple Mount is anything but "disputed." Jewish claims to it pre-date Islam by thousands of years.

Only with the left do squatters have all the rights.

8 posted on 04/02/2004 4:27:25 AM PST by steveegg (End the FReepathons; donate monthly - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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They(IDF) Stormed the 'Dome of the Rock'!?!?!!!!!!!

9 posted on 04/02/2004 4:57:59 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: SkyPilot
The Temple Mount should be open to everyone.
(just like Disneyland)
10 posted on 04/02/2004 5:03:48 AM PST by greasepaint
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Ping!
11 posted on 04/02/2004 5:09:19 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: SkyPilot
The AlAqsa mosque is nothing but another example of the islammite penchant for building mosques overtop of everybody elses churches and synagogues. I'd pay a hundred dollars right now to watch the Israelis dismantle it to the last stone and dump the debris over the border of Saudi Arabia.
12 posted on 04/02/2004 5:13:36 AM PST by greenwolf
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13 posted on 04/02/2004 5:16:21 AM PST by Alouette (Kitchen has been cleaned--now the cooking begins!)
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To: OXENinFLA
There is a whole lot more that isn't being reported ... On purpose by the AP
14 posted on 04/02/2004 5:19:10 AM PST by Mo1 (Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
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To: Mo1
Yeah, this sound big.
15 posted on 04/02/2004 5:24:27 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: OXENinFLA
My guess, with Easter coming up .. Israel is worried about some trouble from the terrorist pigs causing trouble

They've done it before
16 posted on 04/02/2004 5:29:46 AM PST by Mo1 (Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
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To: greasepaint
No rag-head should be allowed on the temple mount, except to denounce the evil of Islam.
17 posted on 04/02/2004 5:30:02 AM PST by antisocial (Texas SCV)
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To: SkyPilot
They left their mosque peacefully. My guess is that they didn't want to have a standoff like they did at the Holy Church. It would force them to defile their mosque like they did the Church and this time there would be no priests to clean up after their excrement.
18 posted on 04/02/2004 5:38:27 AM PST by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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To: greenwolf
I firmly believe that if the Ark or something else that is important to Jews and Christians turned up in Omaha, Nebraska, the islamics would claim that Omaha is "The holiest site in all islam..."
19 posted on 04/02/2004 6:02:21 AM PST by GadareneDemoniac
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To: GadareneDemoniac
LOL!
20 posted on 04/02/2004 6:09:38 AM PST by SkyPilot
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