Fallujah Mosque Explosion Tied to Bomb-making Class

American Forces Press Service (D.O.D.) ^ | 2 July 2003 | Gerry J. Gilmore

[Stultis]

Fallujah Mosque Explosion Tied to Bomb-making Class

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2003 – A bomb manufacturing class being taught inside the Al Hasan Mosque in Fallujah was apparently the cause of the early July 1 explosion there, according to U.S. Central Command officials.

Coalition forces had no involvement in the incident, according to an ongoing investigation by coalition troops and local police. U.S. 3rd Infantry Division troops had responded to the incident after a U.S. aircraft had notified officials about the blast, according to CENTCOM.

In other news, one of six American troops wounded during July 1 anti-coalition attacks in Iraq has died, according to a CENTCOM news release.

Assailants attacked the soldier's convoy – which was traveling through Baghdad -- with an improvised explosive device, the release noted.

The soldier -- a member of the Army's 352nd Civil Affairs Command – was evacuated to the 28th Combat Support Hospital for medical treatment, but succumbed to his wounds. Two other troops were injured in the attack.

The name of the deceased soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

Three other Americans serving in Iraq were wounded July 1 in a separate incident, according to Combined Joint Task Force 7 officials.

[PLMerite]

Nah, just form a couple of our own "work accident teams" like the Israelis have.

[PLMerite]

"The explosion was caused by one student who found it more fun to rub the vaseline onto his unit rather than onto the threads of his pipe bomb."

I'm shocked (shocked!) that anyone on FreeRepublic would know about that use for vaseline. The pipe-bomb use, that is. (/sarcasm)

:)

[Travis McGee]

Great cartoon at 33!

[RobbyS]

Thing to rememeber that to a Muslim a mosque is not a holp place as a Church is to some Christians. It is more like a community center, and a mullah is more like a lay preacher than a priest.

[Redcloak]

CENTCOM needs to start sweeping mosques with RF (radio frequency). RF scans can, in a rather spectacular fashion, reveal the presence of radio controlled detonators. ;^)

[BOBTHENAILER]

And if you get an "F", whoa, watch out.

Yeah, an F can have the effect of bringing the whole class down. As we saw in the Mosque, a religious place in pieces, for a religion of Pieces.

[VRWCmember]

Let me guess - an unqualified student, who gained admission to the Bomb-making school through an aggressive affirmative action program, screwed up on the lab portion of the class.

[sheik yerbouty]

Islam 101.

[sheik yerbouty]

I agree. Many mosues in the US are probably festering pustules of jihadists.

[A Navy Vet]

Lethal Weapon III: Not waiting for the bomb squad, they blow up a building trying to diffuse a bomb.

Murdock - "You should have cut the red wire"
Riggs - "I did"
Murdock - "I meant the blue"

[spunkets]

" Bomb making class. "House of worship." Something here just doesn't seem right..."

Depends on what's being worshiped.

[BlazingArizona]

Clearly this was a public school, not a charter school.

[BlazingArizona]

Yeah, an F can have the effect of bringing the whole class down.

But the teacher can go far - say, to several thousand feet.

[DAnconia55]

French jets sound almost the same. If AFP were fair they would mention that.

Nah. Doppler pattern is different. They're always running AWAY from battle...

[Marysecretary]

Things could really blow up in your face, huh? Love the way they're blaming US forces for it. Another reason to scream JIHAD against us. Nice ploy. Grrrhhhhhhh!!!!

[SoulStorms]

Sorry to be yelling, but I seriously think that we should be inspecting ALL mosques and treating them as arms caches.

Okay...the police have equipment that can look into your house and see activity through the walls. You go to the airport, and the screeners can give you a remote colonoscopy, looking for weapons. Doesn't our military have something that would let them see the activity, and look for explosives within the mosques?

[BOBTHENAILER]

But the teacher can go far - say, to several thousand feet.

That's gonna be hard for the next class to top.

This one went out with a BANG!!!!

Islam is a religion of humor...heh, heh, heh.

[Seeking the truth]

Ooops..............

Islam - Religion of Peace >

[Publius6961]

This article and any other like it is completely useless.

Unless a forensic study of the explosion is made and made public by a third party acceptable to American friends and foes alike.

Who that might be I'll leave for others to decide.
But this "did too!"/"did not" BS is a total waste of time.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Now, pay attention, class. I'm only going to show you this once!

BOOM