Posted on 07/02/2003 8:36:49 AM PDT by Stultis
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.
(Abduhl, thinking) Was that the green wire or the brown wire? Oh well, I am in the hands of .....
Add: "presence of evil in the world" and it makes sense.
Earth to evil bastard and stupid idiot muslim shit-for-brains and worthless piece of offal: The kill ration so far has been about 50,000:1 in OUR favor. Better get a new plan.
They forgot to use the "cone of silence" bombmaking module.
Sorry to be yelling, but I seriously think that we should be inspecting ALL mosques and treating them as arms caches.
I completely agree.
But we're sure he blowed up real good!
The US government needs to be giving EVERY IMAM in the USA a serious rectal exam right now before before WE THE PEOPLE decide to do it ourselves.
Bump to that, they are not religious structures, they are military ones.
And there was another one recently: Afghan Killed by Own Explosives in Kabul. [AfghanNews.Net]
And, truth be told, compared to Arabs, Afghans on average are a lot less literate thanks to the unending civil war, but a lot smarter. So we're going to see more of these terrorist "own goals" in Iraq.
One thing you'll never learn in the lib-rags, but it's absolutely true: most of the people in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, suppport their new leaders. What the press is doing in Iraq is focusing on the disaffected former Saddam henchmen... kind of like if they were reporting from Germany in December 1945 and only presenting the ex-SS viewpoint. (Which today's news"men" probably would have done).
d.o.l.
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