[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.

---

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!

[blackdog]

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

[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 ....

[LoudRepublicangirl]

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

[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.

[ChevyZ28]

I guess we can now say the gorilla warfare Bush warned us about at the start is now going to happen, only the insurgents are not with Hussein. I believe we should have gone after these people like this from the start.

[GeorgeW23225]

"ONLY" 40 dead?? Damn!! Sure wish it could have been MORE!!

And, while all this is going on, John Flippin Kerry called "Al-Sadr" a "legitimate" voice. He was also "dismayed" that Al-Sadr had his newspaper shut down by coalition forces. Kerry doesn't have a clue, does he??

[atomicpossum]

U.S. Marines in the third day of a battle to pacify this Sunni Muslim city fired a rocket and dropped a 500-pound, laser-guided bomb on a mosque bunker compound Wednesday, and witnesses said as many as 40 people were killed. Shiite-inspired violence spread to key cities in Iraq.

[ZULU]

"I call upon the American people to stand beside their brethren, the Iraqi people, who are suffering an injustice by your rulers and the occupying army, to help them in the transfer of power to honest Iraqis," al-Sadr said "

(He is talking directly to John Kerry and his radical DemocRat supporters, as the Hollywood and media elites, the very first people who will be executed in an Islamic society.)