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Iraq
Five killed in Iraq Shia mosque bombing
2004-01-09
At least five people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a bomb blast at a Shia mosque in the central Iraqi town of Baquba.
Has Lashkar e-Jhangvi arrived in Iraq?
The blast occurred on Friday after the end of the main weekly prayers. Local police and witnessess said the bomb exploded outside a small mosque in a residential area. Officials at a nearby hospital said they knew of 39 people injured. It was not clear whether it was a car bomb. Mosques have been the target of violent attacks in the past. A car bomb outside the main mosque in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf killed more than 80 people after Friday prayers last August. An explosion near a mosque in the mainly Sunni town of Falluja in June killed nine people.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#2  Seal off the Sunni Triangle,give 24hrs to turn in thier weapons,go trhough yard by yard,house by house using dogs,ground penetrating rador,ultra-sound and clean the damn place out.Anybody caught carrying,hiding weapons is immediatly arrested.If the resist they die.
Posted by: raptor   2004-1-9 4:58:04 PM  

#1  What strikes me about these mosque bombings is that they are mostly Shia mosques and Shia parishoners being attacked. The conventional wisdom prior to GW2 was that the Shi'ites (post-Saddam) would not hesitate to give Saddam's Sunni brethren a good ass-kicking and score-settling; but from what is reported here and elsewhere in the Blogosphere, the Sunnis are still busy being the aggressive troublemakers, and the Shia are taking it in the neck.
Posted by: seafarious   2004-1-9 12:01:02 PM  

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