The Burtha mosque is the most holy Shia mosque in Baghdad. Raiding it shows we weren't playing favorites like we did in 2006.
I thought the aim is to catch terrorists and illegal weapons.
One example of not appearing even-handed is what happened yesterday after the execution of Saddam's deputy Taha Yaseen Ramadan. A US chopper picked up the body and handed it over to relatives in Tikrit for burial. His supporters (not just in Iraq but in much of the middle-east) interpreted this as US execution since the US handed back the body. Don't get me wrong, I think the guy deserve to be executed and I have no sympathy to his supporters, but It would have been much better in my view to arrange for his relatives or some intermediaries to pick up the body without US involvement.