Blast destroys Al-Asqariya Golden Mosque"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/22/iraq.main/index.html ^

[Bubbatuck]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An explosion ripped through a Shiite holy site in Samarra Wednesday, destroying the golden dome of the al Askariya mosque, a U.S. military statement and a local security official said.

[aShepard]

......Fox is reporting the dome was actually only built in 1905. Is it the outlying buildings that date back 1400 years?.........

Yeah, I was wondering what all that re-bar was doing sticking up in the air!

[aShepard]

The shadow on the mosque at #125, looks like the mosque is giving/getting the big middle finger!

[gathersnomoss]

TMI.

[PigRigger]

Interesting ... Jews and Christians wait on the return of the Messiah. For Christians this is Christ. Here the Shites await on Satan's return. Surely Christ will be returning soon. When their Iman returns is when all hell breaks loose. We are living in prophetic times.....

Christ will return when His Church no longer exists......We are seeing the sowing of the seeds...much, much more will occur before His return....Unfortunately, the carnage, chaos, and violence has only just begun...IMHO.....

[ASA Vet]

My focus-thingie is broken.

Please keep you "focus-thingie" down.

[Sender]

Whoever did this clearly wanted to incite a bloody civil war. This is a slap in the face to the Shia that cannot go unanswered. Here it comes...

[Flavius Josephus]

The parallel to Hitler's Riechstag fire is scary.

I know what you mean. Here we have the US Ambassador warning that if the Shi'ites don't form a unity goobernment with the sunni we're going to cut off the money. Then this happens.

People here just don't get it. It's an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth over there. There's no Jesus, no New Covenant. There cannot be any peace without the Shiites taking retribution on the Sunni's for the generations of abuse and death under Saddam. Maybe if they'd have let them hang him from a meat hook it would have helped, but as it is I imagine the "trial" is just p-ing the Shi'a off worse.

The Shiites are going to take their revenge, and we can't talk them out of it. For pete's sake we KNOW how long their memories are.

There's going to be a big war. We are id10ts not to be preparing for it.

[Allegra]

Thank you so much. My prayers are out for all of our troops and the others who have to be on the roads. (I was on Baghdad Airport Road just yesterday coming back from a business trip in Jordan - the luck of the Irish on timing is with me!)

Baghdad is locking down now - Election Day style.

[The Red Zone]

The gingham dog and the calico cat

[Allegra]

The Shiites are going to take their revenge, and we can't talk them out of it.

They're taking it right now.

We can hear some of it.

[Malsua]

Al Mehdi is the 12th and final awaited Imam in Shia Islam."

This must throw a bit of a wrench in the President of Iran's plans . He was waiting for this guy and now the mosque is gone

Well, there is another explanation. The Mahdi showed up and his suicide belt went off prematurely.

[djf]

I am not excusing anything. However when some fringe does something I am not sure how that justifies anger against the whole muslim world. And I dont understand esp after we spent almost a century having to defeat communism that every one here wants a solution of Islam and the modern World in like 5 minutes. We have only started this new policy since 2001.

Untrue. The muslims have been on a murdering rampage for the last 14 hundred years.

[sport]

Who cares?

Not me.

[livius]

Stay safe, Allegra. This is an awful situation for all caught in it. I am sure that there are many Iraqis themselves in Baghdad right now who are wishing they were just about anywhere else.

[databoss]

Where's Saddam when you need him to keep the order? This place is going to hell in a hurry and we better get out of the middle.

[Lurker]

You keep your head down and your armor buttoned up tight ma'am.

L

[The Red Zone]

By this time next year it'll prolly be rebuilt.

[DCPatriot]

Come back safely.

...with the cats. ;^)

[Allegra]

Thanks, y'all.

I hope we're not headed into something like April '04. I still shudder at memories of that.

Please keep the innocent Iraqis in your prayers along with our troops. There are so many who are just like we are - they just want freedom and peace. There are several who have been nothing but kind, good friends to me and I'm worried about them. We're locked down tight now and I won't see them for a few days.

[Lurker]

For what it's worth, I'll do as you ask.

Now you keep yourself safe ma'am.

Regards,

L