The church was one of the five Christian places of worship hit by bomb attacks in August 2004.
BAGHDAD, Iraq August 1, 2004. — Islamic Terrorist on Sunday carried a coordinated wave of car bombs on five Christian Churches in Baghdad and Mosul (Nineveh).
The attacks in Baghdad killed 15 people and injuring more than 50, the attacks on Mosul churches killed 11 people and injured 11 worshippers.
The first attack was aimed at the Baghdad Armenian Church in Karada just 15 minutes into the Sunday Service at around 6:30 p. m. After 10 minutes later there was a blast at a second church this time the Assyrian Catholic church, 500 meters away was targeted.
At 7:15 p. m. The third church was bombed of Mar Butrus Polus in the Al-Doora district in Southeast Baghdad, belonging to the AssyroChaldean Catholic Faith.
At the same time of 7 p. m In the district of Na’aeriya, New Baghdad (east of the capital), the church of Mar Elia el Heeri, also Assyrian (Syrian) Catholic Church was bombed.
In Mosul (Nineveh), at around 7 p. m. a car bomb blew up next to Mark Polus Church while worshippers were coming out of mass. Six cars were damaged, and parts of the church were damaged by fire. Reporters said several rocket-propelled grenades were also launched at the church. Iraqi police discovered a sixth bomb outside a Baghdad church. And authorities disarmed it.
The church blasts shattered stained-glass windows and sent churchgoers running into the streets, screaming and clutching their bleeding heads. The Assyrian church appeared to be among the most seriously damaged. The blast gouged a 4-by-6-foot crater and blew apart much of a brick wall surrounding the church. Inside the church compound, the explosion broke or ripped away the stone facades of more than a dozen tombs.
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Monday, August 02, 2004
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“Beware the wrath of the patient when finally aroused”
Hi,
The atrocity has backfired. If the intent of the criminals was to incite sectarian violence between Moslems and Christians; then they have achieved exactly the opposite. In my living memory I have never witnessed such upsurge of sympathy for the Christian community as what is happening right now. The people are really aroused now. The new Iraqi TV stations (including Al Sharqiya) are doing non-stop coverage of the event. Everybody has to proclaim his denunciation in no uncertain terms, even the hypocrites perhaps with some shy and stammering insinuations of the usual charges that perhaps it was the Americans or the Jews etc., sounding unconvinced themselves of these slanders; because even an absolute imbecile can easily guess who is behind this – and in fact, I don’t think anybody has any serious doubt about the identity of the perpetrators.
These hate creatures are beyond redemption. We can perhaps talk about dealing with the root causes of terrorism etc. etc., but this will apply to preventing future growth of the cancer, but the present cancerous cells are incurable. The only fitting solution for these is amputation.
Perhaps the most fitting solution is to prepare a great big pond of “Ordure", to put it genteelly, and drown them all in it – Bullshit to Bullshit and Excrement to Excrement, and Good Riddance for ever, brothers - beards, turbans and all; and we don't think we are going to miss you much. And please Lord don't let them send video tapes to Al Jazeera from Hell.
And then, we shall all live happily ever after.
Salaam
Alaa
