Posted on 11/24/2006 8:59:59 AM PST by TexKat
Edited on 11/24/2006 9:04:22 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Looks like another beautiful day in the neighborhood.
The peaceful religion strikes again.
If they were Branch Davidians they'd have had it coming....
How are we supposed to democratize savages? I'm beginning to think that freedom isn't the natural yearning of every human heart.
Shiites burn 6 Sunni worshippers alive
By THOMAS WAGNER and QAIS Al-BASHIR, Associated Press Writers
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive as Iraqi soldiers stood by, and seven Sunni mosques came under attack as Shiites took revenge for the slaughter of at least 215 people in the Sadr City slum.
A U.S. helicopter opened fire into the Shiite enclave after militiamen fired on it from the ground, residents said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
With the government trying to avert a civil war, two simultaneous bombings in Tal Afar, in northern Iraq, killed at least 23 people. On Thursday, Sunni-Arab insurgents unleashed bombings and mortar attacks in Sadr City, the deadliest assault since the U.S.-led invasion.
Members of the Mahdi Army militia burned four mosques and several homes while killing 12 other Sunni residents in the once-mixed Hurriyah neighborhood until American forces arrived, said police Capt. Jamil Hussein. Gunmen loyal to radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr began taking over the neighborhood this summer and a majority of its Sunni residents already had fled.
The gunmen attacked the four mosques with rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and automatic rifles. Residents said the militiamen prevented them from entering the burned buildings to remove the dead, and they and Hussein said Shiite-dominated police and Iraqi military stood idly by.
Later Friday, militiamen raided al-Samarraie Sunni mosque in the el-Amel district and killed two guards, police 1st. Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razaq said. Two other Sunni mosques in west Baghad also were attacked, police said.
In Baghdad, followers of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr warned they would suspend their membership in parliament and the Cabinet if Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meets with President Bush in Jordan next week, a member of parliament said. Bush and al-Maliki were scheduled to meet Wednesday and Thursday in Amman.
The al-Sadr bloc in parliament and government is the backbone of al-Maliki's political support, and its withdrawal, if only temporarily, would be a severe blow to the prime minister's already shaky hold on power.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Is it something in the water over there or something in the genes?
I take it that after their services, they don't serve coffee and doughnuts......
Ain't democracy grand?
The problem is the Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene.
Something in the koran.
In Baghdad, followers of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr warned they would suspend their membership in parliament and the Cabinet if Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meets with President Bush in Jordan next week, a member of parliament said. Bush and al-Maliki were scheduled to meet Wednesday and Thursday in Amman.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Will they continue to endure? No it is in Islam's nature to devour what is outside of it and to devour itself from the inside out. Their god is very hungry, as it has been since being cast out of the garden to crawl on its stomach.
This headline will be repeated ad nauseum for another 1,200 years. And the beat goes on...
Don't tell me the level of barbarity among Muslims STILL surprises people? Islam breeds savages.
Why the hell can't we build a massive wall around the entire country and let these prehistoric, Satan-worshipping, maniacs kill each other off?
We are witnessing a murderous,evil, religion killing its hosts as it tries to destroy the world.
Let them all kill each other- every last one.
The world will be a much better place.
what the heck- is there some contest over there to see who can murder in the most horrific way? http://sacredscoop.com
Knuke Bagdad and the MSM too....give the Kurds what they need and screw the rest... this should stop. We shouldn't be freeing a diseased Islamic society...
"The problem is the Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene."
Exactly. Once again, we find ourselves in the position of caring more about other peoples' freedom and security than they do their own. The Iraqis have to want this, or it won't work, no matter how many troops we send in or how long we're there.
I understand we've armed the Kurds. They've proven so far they can handle self-rule. Good on 'em. As for the Sunnis and the Shiias, I'm about fed up. And that goes double for the worthless Iraqi "government."
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