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Iraq
23 dead in bombing of Shi'ite mosque
2005-11-03
A car bomb outside a mosque in central Iraq killed at least 23 people and wounded 46 on Wednesday, targeting Shi'ite Muslims in an apparent sectarian attack as the holy month of Ramadan drew to a close.
You don't say.
Earlier several roadside bombs and shootings killed at least a dozen people, mostly in Baghdad, and a U.S. Marine helicopter came down in Ramadi, killing both crew members. U.S. forces launched an air strike near the crash site and a local doctor said there were dozens of casualties. The car bomb in the mainly Shi'ite town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad, came as people were preparing for the three-day Eid holiday marking the end of Ramadan. Eid should start on Thursday or Friday, with a possible lag between Sunni and Shi'ite rites.
Always gotta be *special* don't you, Sunnis? I have a message: It is NOT all about you.
Two U.S. Marines were killed when their Super Cobra helicopter crashed in the area of Ramadi west of Baghdad, the military said. The cause of the crash was under investigation but witnesses reported it had come under fire from the ground.The U.S. military said a fighter jet dropped two 500-lbs bombs on "a reported insurgent command centre" around 500 metres from where the helicopter crashed. "No casualty information is known at this time," it said in a statement.
"We're still counting kneecaps."
Posted by:Dan Darling

#6  you're going to coerce the prisoner, do it by making them suffer physically.

?? Why?
Posted by: 2b   2005-11-03 18:22  

#5  ... the US military desert boots ARE MADE OF SUEDE.

Just as how sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers, only a page from the Koran can give suede that "showroom" shine.

Actually, I look down upon such pettiness as abusing the Koran and crap like that. If you're going to coerce the prisoner, do it by making them suffer physically. There's plenty of ways to humiliate someone without being intentionally sacreligious. Admittedly, with Muslims, almost everything any non-Muslim does is sacreligious, but that's their problem, not ours.
Posted by: Zenster   2005-11-03 17:31  

#4  Jason van Steenwyck (Iraq Now) noted that the MSM were reporting the complaints of a former Bagram Air Base prisoner. Haji claimed that he was beaten repeatedly and that guards used pages from the Koran to shine their boots.

Jason wanted to know why it was left up to him to point out that the US military desert boots ARE MADE OF SUEDE.
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-11-03 09:56  

#3  It appears that it's ok to blow them up on Ramadan, but don't touch them giving them to a prisoner.
Posted by: plainslow   2005-11-03 09:52  

#2  But the main question here is: Were any Korans or is it Qu'rans or is it Qur'ans damaged or destroyed?
Posted by: The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen   2005-11-03 09:38  

#1  I remember how the press would talk about how we have to be careful about fighting during Ramadan, in the first Gulf War and Afganastan. I can now see what they meant. It appears to be very importnant not to fight and kill other Muslims on that holiday.
Posted by: plainslow   2005-11-03 08:31  

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