Marines bomb Fallujah mosque

Herald Sun (AU) ^ | 07 Apr 04 | Staff

[veronica]

US marines pressing an offensive in this Iraqi town west of Baghdad bombed a mosque in the center of the town Wednesday and killed up to 40 insurgents inside, a marine officer said.

The attack came from a jet aircraft at a high angle to minimize the impact, the officer said.

"We wanted to kill the people inside," said Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne.

[Broadside Joe]

"this is interesting - Hamas getting directly involved"

Well I guess this means that virgins are in short supply in the West Bank.

[Quilla]

Headline on Drudge:
Sadr Aide Says Iraqis Capture Coalition Soldiers...

[TomGuy]

Could we expect anything else from 'I would turn US security over to the UN' Kerry?

Kerry: Terrorist Shiite Al-Sadr 'A Legitimate Voice'

[gatex]

"If we bombed Monte Cassino, we can bomb a mosque. "

The abby was bombed and shelled on Feb. 15, 1944.

Pres. Roosevelt said such monuments could not be spared when American lives are at stake.

[New Horizon]

"We wanted to kill the people inside," said Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne.

"Are there any other questions?"

[TomGuy]

No confirmation! From FoxNews: Assistant to Sadr is saying some American soldiers have been captured.

[Hat-Trick]

Exactly, Dennis. Mosques are the Islam's armory, war room, briefing/debriefing center, quartermaster supply hooch, all rolled into one.

Therefore, they are appropriately targets.

[norwaypinesavage]

To quote a sophisticated NPR reporter during a live interview with a victim of the barracks bombing in the First Gulf War: "Did it go 'bang'?"

[Frank_Discussion]

No. WE will give them respect. WE will not descend to their level. Kill them to stop them, yes. Mutilate them like a bunch of amoral psychos, that's just wrong.

The amount of death and it's swiftness should make the proper impression.

Being terrorists ourselves blurs any distinctions we may want to make between us and them.

[NCPAC]

Sorry, Mudblood, but the USA has been picking and choosing what constitutes a religion for decades. In the 90's the IRS decided that Scientology was a bona fide religion by granting the Scientologists tax exempt status - after years in which the Fed denied Scientology was a religion. As a case in point, the Church of Satan is not deemed worthy of tax exemption/religious recognition by the Fed while Santeria is recognized and exempt. I worked for years as a Congressional liaison to the IRS specializing in tax exempt organizations, including churches/religions -and this picking and choosing ain't news.

You can practice whatever "religion" you want, but that doesn't mean the USA is going to recognize what you practice as being a "true" religion by granting it tax exempt status. In the matter of Islam, the case is made by the Muslims themselves as to their collective "religious nature."

[JFC]

God have mercy on our Soilders.


My heart is strong today for our military and their famalies. These are the bravest of the brave.... I want Hollywood and the elitists to get to their knees and thank God for such heros, not likely to happen but they do not hold a candle to these brave souls...

[hawkaw]

Kerry: Terrorist Shiite Al-Sadr 'A Legitimate Voice'

You got to be kidding me. Kerry said that! What a crazy man. I would have expected something that insane coming from my former Prime Minister Chretin.

Wow .... I just ... can't believe he said that.

I'm friggin stunned.

hawk

[Getsmart64]

By BASSEM MROUE and ABDUL-QADER SAADI, Associated Press Writers

FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. Marines in a fierce battle for this Sunni Muslim stronghold fired rockets that hit a mosque compound filled with worshippers Wednesday, and witnesses said as many as 40 people were killed. Shiite-inspired violence spread to nearly all of the country.




The fighting in Fallujah and neighboring Ramadi, where commanders confirmed 12 Marines were killed late Tuesday, was part of an intensified uprising involving both Sunni and Shiites that now stretched from Kirkuk in the north to the far south.


An Associated Press reporter in Fallujah saw cars ferrying the dead and wounded from the Abdul-Aziz al-Samarrai mosque. Witnesses said a helicopter fired three missiles into the compound, destroying part of a wall surrounding the mosque but not damaging the main building.


The strike came as worshippers had gathered for afternoon prayers, witnesses said. Temporary hospitals were set up in private homes to treat the wounded and prepare the dead for burial.




"Worshippers" my butt!!!!.....

[MeekOneGOP]

bump !

[Quilla]

In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry defended terrorist Shiite imam Moqtada al-Sadr as a "legitimate voice" in Iraq, despite that fact that he's led an uprising that has killed nearly 20 American GIs in the last two days.

Speaking of al-Sadr's newspaper, which was shut down by coalition forces last week after it urged violence against U.S. troops, Kerry complained to National Public Radio, "They shut a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq."

In the next breath, however, the White House hopeful caught himself and quickly changed direction, adding, "Well, let me . . . change the term legitimate. It belongs to a voice — because he has clearly taken on a far more radical tone in recent days and aligned himself with both Hamas and Hezbollah, which is a sort of terrorist alignment."

This man makes me sick. We are at war, Sen. Kerry. Americans do not fuel the enemy with this type of rhetoric when our troops are in harm's way. STFU.

[Lockbar]

Message to Islamic Militia: "ALL YOUR MOSQUE ARE BELONG TO US"

[lilylangtree]

Sounds like an excellent move. Hope those murderous fanatics who like to hide in mosques were killed immediately. Keep up the good work!

[DollyCali]

Now they can reconstruct a "church or synagogue" on that vacant lot.

A Pig Farm ???

[mudblood]

This is interesting. I didn't know they excluded scientology like that. Nor satanism. That kind of bugs me. I'm sure a lawyer could explain the laws surrounding tax-exempt status vs. allowing that a practice by a people constitutes a "religion". I know that the IRS would be in their right if they said "selling cars isn't a religion, you can't have tax-exempt status". See now THAT makes sense. Satanism is a religion though, a wacked out frekazoid one, properly termed a cult, practiced by bored teenagers who need to be beaten: but it should be protected under the constitution.

[deep]

Last night on Scarborough Country, Wesley Clark said the U.S. should have "heard him out", instead of attacking Sadr.