[Mike Fieschko]

Underlining supplied.

[killjoy]

Did you find any Darth Vader helmets?" he asked the marine captain next to him.

The helmets worn by the Fedayeen look like Darth Vader's helmet. Very very strange.

[killjoy]

[fso301]

On the top floor of the mosque were nine artillery shells, mixed in with boxes of tile. In the back of the compound was an ice cream truck, its sides colorfully decorated with orange, red and blue popsicles. Inside it was packed with rocket-propelled grenades and bomb-making materials.

"This was probably a traveling I.E.D. factory," General Natonski said, using the military term for improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs.

Why am I thinking it was no travelling IED factory but rather a truck bomb indended to lure a large crowd of children up to it before going off?

[Happy2BMe]

BEYOND THE WILDEST EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT YOU CAN FIND IN A MOSQUE THESE DAYS - FALLUJAH PING.

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"We knew there would be ordnance," said Lt. General Richard Natonski, the Marine commander who planned the American strike here, "but what we found exceeded our wildest expectations."

General Natonski took a tour of the Janabi mosque several hours after it was discovered this morning by a company of marines from the Third Battalion, Fifth Regiment. The mosque, in a residential area just north of the main east-west artery known as Highway 10, included at least a dozen brick outbuildings packed with bombs, guns, rocket-propelled grenades, and ammunition.

The diversity of the weapons surprised the officers here: in the street outside, a ship mine stood in a puddle.

Just inside the mosque compound was an aluminum shed full of mortars and TNT. Like many weapons depots in Falluja, it had been wired to explode, and had to be carefully dismantled by an American explosives team.

Inside the compound was a document explaining how to destroy tanks using rocket-propelled grenades. General Natonski picked up a white pilot's helmet among the mortars and gazed wonderingly at it.

[kalee]

How long before TROP sympathizers protest our soldiers being in this mosque with their boots on? I say any mosque found with weapons inside is a military site and should be leveled.

[Waco]

Don't worry the MSM will say NOTHING of these "Holy Places" being used a arsenals.

[Ben Chad]

Sweet

[MinuteGal]

Stay alert! The New York Times ALWAYS manages to slip something in somewhere.

What's this repeated "Mr. Janabi" business! The only civilized title this murdering monster should have is "Terrorist Janabi".

Leni

[Squeako]

In the back of the compound was an ice cream truck, its sides colorfully decorated with orange, red and blue popsicles. Inside it was packed with rocket-propelled grenades and bomb-making materials.

Those bastards were making rocket popsicled grenades.

[EaglesUpForever]

Just inside the mosque compound was an aluminum shed full of mortars and TNT. Like many weapons depots in Falluja, it had been wired to explode

OK, *they* wire their mosques to explode, but we can't take a shot at these weapons-filled mosques because they're "holy."

Also found in the house were files showing the names of people who had been tortured and executed for cooperating with the Americans and their allies, military officials said.

Please tell me why we avoid targeting mosques? In his second term, can Bush drop the "religion of peace" line?

[ppaul]

In a Mosque

Where else?

[Travis McGee]

Just inside the mosque compound was an aluminum shed full of mortars and TNT. Like many weapons depots in Falluja, it had been wired to explode, and had to be carefully dismantled by an American explosives team.