Posted on 11/18/2005 8:12:06 AM PST by Calamari
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Suicide bombers killed 74 worshippers at two Shiite mosques near the Iranian border Friday, while a pair of car bombs targeting a Baghdad hotel housing Western journalists killed eight Iraqis.
The suicide attackers targeted the Sheik Murad mosque and the Khanaqin Grand Mosque in Khanaqin, 90 miles northeast of Baghdad, as dozens of people were attending Friday prayers, police said. The police command said 74 people were killed and 75 wounded in the largely Kurdish town.
At sunset, dozens of people were still searching the rubble of the three-story Khanaqin Grand Mosque. As the men dug, 12-year-old Sarkhel Akram collected copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, then she kissed them and put them away.
Shia Mosques, attended by Kurds? Hmmmm. I wasn't aware we had that many Shia-Kurdish U.S. Marines attending local Mosques. But I suppose we must since hawkish-ex-Marine-conservative-Democrat-suddenly-(for the sixth or seventh time)-turned-war-critic Congressman Murtha has assured us that we are the enemy, and the target, in Iraq.
So much for their sacred ummah..
Well, hey, it's worked so well for them the past 1,000 years - why mess with a good thing?
Have you heard it was mosques in the MSM?
I don't have the TV on. The radio station that I am tuned to has not yet mentioned it. Haven't seen it on Drudge.
I don't think it fits the "template" so it will of course get "special handling".
Must be Friday, Holy Muslim Day.
Sitting on the bank of the Tigris River, Achmed and Tariq are sharing pictures -
Achmed: And this is a picture of my young son Mustafa - he died as a martyr in a suicide bomb attack at the age of 17.
Tariq: And this is a picture of my son, Mohammed who also did the same thing - at the age of 16.
Achmed - Yes - the blow up fast, don't they?
I wonder if any Korans were affected in these blasts. You can blow Korans and their owners to smithereens, but ya can't have FAKE stories about them being stuffed in a toilet!
If mosques become a regular target of suicide bombers then the secure storage of Korans may have to be rethought.
I feel so ashamed that I laughed at that...
Funny as hell though.
but I thought these were holy places... remember MSM making a big splash when our military was staking out some 2 bit terrorists at a mosque?
militant muslims destroying mosques and killing worshippers indiscriminately.. I guess that's ok with MSM cuz they're all muslims... all in the family
The "true" Islamics are blowing up mosques?
ya... we should hear Zarqawi deliver a speech in the next day or so "no.. no... it was a secret CIA mosque meeting! yes.. that was it!"
The Kurds should be relocated to a place of their own here in the US.
Religon of Peace alert!
Nashville has the largest population of Kurds in the country. Damned if I know where they are, all I see are Mexicans.
What we really ought to start is an all-out war between the Shiites and the Sunnis -- let the Shiites, Ismailies, Allawis, Boris, Dervishes, etc. line up together and fight the Sunnis, Wahabis, Deobands.
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