Car Bomb Attacked Thwarted~~~today in Iraq!

Sky News ^ | NA

[Dog]

CAR BOMB ATTACK THWARTED

Security forces have arrested two men outside a mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufah after finding two cars laden with bombs.

The arrests came amid warnings from clerics that Saddam Hussein loyalists or al-Qaeda members will strike over the next two days.

The men were arrested outside the Masjed al-Kufah mosque, 180 kilometres south of Baghdad.

"We found the seats (in one car stopped on Sunday) were not well designed and had new covers. This raised our suspicion and we searched the seats and found them filled with bombs," a policemen said.

"Yesterday we seized the same kind of car filled with bombs," he said, adding that that car was driven by two men from Yemen.

The two men detained on Monday were from the southern Iraqi city of Basra, he said.

Last Updated: 12:28 UK, Monday September 01, 2003

[Dog]

We just got lucky it seems...

[Dog]

PING!

[MEG33]

Really sharp eyes on someone's part.Good news.

[csvset]

"Yesterday we seized the same kind of car filled with bombs," he said, adding that that car was driven by two men from Yemen.

Yemen=AQ ?

[Dog]

Yep.

[Tree of Liberty]

Yemen=AQ ?

The odds are good that that's the case. Bin Laden's family comes from there, originally.

[verity]

Perhaps the perps can be "induced" to provide some information.

[Dog]

And the American media is fixated on the pizza delivery man who blew himself up..

[SamAdams76]

Unfortunately, nobody will every get credit for all the terrorist attacks that have been thwarted. We can prevent a thousand horrible atrocities on the scale of 9/11, but if one attack gets carried out successfully, there will be no shortage of people calling for Bush's head.

[Iowa Granny]

Good Find, Dog. Thanks for posting it.

[Dog]

No Miranda rights in Iraq....:-)

[COBOL2Java]

In a related story, Saddam Hussein's nose announced that he was not responsible for last week's bombing of a mosque.

[netmilsmom]

Woo Hoo!!

God Bless our Troops and keep them safe!

[Ken522]

Rather than arresting the perps, can't soldiers just shoot them on the spot? As long as the soldiers don't touch them, they can always say they were being attacked.

[Dog]

I know people on this site don't like Debka......but they are saying right now that there is a fourth car laden with explosives still on the loose..

[Tokhtamish]

I get the sense that this was some Iraqi policeman.

After the An Najaf bombing, Iraqis are associating foreign Arabs with al Qaeda jehadis. So anyone with any kind of accent is getting extra scrutiny from an Iraqi people who don't want foreign troublemakers.

[pt17]

May these two men have a very uncomfortable night!

[csvset]

Rather than arresting the perps, can't soldiers just shoot them on the spot?

I'll guess that they'd hope to squeeze some intel from these guys.

After that, who knows/cares what happens to them.

[Dog]

Ken this is really good news....we will know how these bombs are being put together...bombmakers have a signature. The cars found can be traced....more than likely the 2 bombers caught in the cars have a support team....we will know who they are before this is done.

This would have been a massive attack.....3 different cars....three different targets this has all the makings of an AQ plot.

[tbpiper]

I hate when that happens. These guys really know how to screw up a good quagmire.