[genefromjersey]

You should see how this is being reported by AP,etc.:
Their story (written by people with Arabic-sounding names) claims the mosque was full of worshippers,who had just started noon prayers-and makes no mention of the fact the mosque had been used as a command post to attack troops for several hours prior to the rocket response.

This is a deliberate lie-being circulated worldwide-bu some of the same people who obviously had advance notice of the murder of 4 civilians a few days earlier.

[b4its2late]

Sadr Aide Says Iraqis Capture Coalition Soldiers
Wed Apr 7, 2004 09:30 AM ET

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A top aide to the militant Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday that his supporters had captured a number of soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition during clashes currently taking place across a large swathe of Iraq.
"Some tribes have captured some occupation forces on the streets," Qays al-Khazali told a news conference in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Najaf.

He gave no further details. The news conference was broadcast by Lebanon's al-Manar television station, mouthpiece of the militant Shi'ite Hizbollah group.

There was no immediate comment on the report from the command of U.S.-led forces in Baghdad.

Khazali denounced a U.S. military pledge earlier on Wednesday to destroy Sadr's Mehdi Army militia.

"The Mehdi Army is the Iraqi people and destroying the Iraqi people is a crime," he said.

Sadr's militia has been battling the occupying forces across south and central Iraq since Sunday.

[sarasota]

Yeah, ok, so the terrorists took a prayer break. (Gotta pray 5X/day.) They were firing on our Marines.