U.S. Hits Mosque Compound; 40 (Militants ) Said Killed

The Las Vegas Sun ^ | April 07, 2004 at 11:11:02 PDT | BASSEM MROUE and ABDUL-QADER SAADI

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The press is finally stating there were militants there.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[samtheman]

Here's the mosque,
Here's the steeple,
Open the MOAB,
Where's all the people?

[lilylangtree]

YYYYYeeeeessssss! I agree. It's time that mainstream media caught up with the rest of the world. Media is a day late and a dollar short, as my mama would say.

[Diogenesis]

Those are TERRORISTS.

Terrorists and militants work in the media.
To them, liberation becomes "occupation".
To them, terrorists are now "pilgrims".
NBC called Sadr a "liberator" last night
even as NBC called America an "occupier";
Q.E.D. Brokaw and NBC serve America's enemy.

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GOLDEN OLDIE FROM THE INVASION OF BAGHDAD

Couric, representing NBC (and French interests):
"We (at NBC) all hope and pray that Saddam escaped harm, and hopefully fled to Syria."

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Marines waged a six-hour battle around the mosque with the militants holed up inside before a Cobra helicopter fired a Hellfire missile at the base of its minaret, and an F-16 dropped the bomb, said Marine Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne.

Witnesses said the strike came as worshippers had gathered for afternoon prayers

So they mean to tell us that people watched this happen for 6 HOURS! and then decided to converge on the mosque to pray???

BS!

[Eurotwit]

Do you know of any more details of the TWO mosques that Fox apparently talked about?

[blackdog]

Look for some western church bombings or massacre's forth with. Europe first and then America.

[blanknoone]

A 500 pound bomb?!? That's it?!? It should have been multiple 2000 pound bombs. If there is rubble...it will become a shrine to anti-Americanism. If there is nothing...it will be nothing.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Important sentence here also:

The 12 Marines were killed Tuesday in Ramadi, where Maj. Gen. James Mattis, 1st Marine Division commander, said his forces still were fighting insurgents that included

Syrian mercenaries

along a one-mile front.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Remember what we did to MONTE CASINO in Italy in WWII.

[stainlessbanner]

Witnesses said the strike came as worshippers had gathered for afternoon prayers.

Sorry - I don't believe that spin.

[John Lenin]

Oh no, the Militants might get mad at us now ....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

NO, have not been watching FOX !

[jimbo123]

AP's writers for this report:

BASSEM MROUE and ABDUL-QADER SAADI

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right , see post #6!

[Samwise]

LOL

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Rummy is going to be talking in about 30 minutes regarding todays events.

[KellyAdmirer]

"Peaceful" Iraqis do seem to do strange things, don't they? They sleep quietly through raging gun battles involving helicopter gunships and automatic weapons only to be killed "innocently asleep in their beds," they calmly go to pray at their local mosque during a raging insurgency outside, and women and children appear on newscasts shouting how they want to kill the invaders and then the Iraqis wail when some children and women are killed. There's also the ubiquitous "pregnant woman" who somehow mysteriously appears in the middle of gunbattles and gets mowed down.

Yep, real funny people, these Iraqis.

[Grig]

Someone set up us the bomb!

All your mosque are belong to us
You are on the way to destruction
You have no chance to survive make your time
For great justice.