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| Blast Near Iraq Mosque Kills 4, 3 Children |
| 2005-08-13 |
| BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A blast Friday near a mosque west of Baghdad killed four people, including three children, and wounded at least 19 other people, police and hospital officials said. Iraqis blamed U.S. forces, but an American spokesman disputed the Iraqi claim. The blast occurred on the outskirts of the town of Nasaf, near Ramadi, an insurgent center 70 miles west of Baghdad, according to police Lt. Mohammed al-Obeidi and Dr. Mohammed al-Ani of Ramadi General Hospital. A hospital official, Ali Taleb, said a U.S. armored vehicle fired near the Ibn al-Jawzi mosque, about 15 miles east of Ramadi, after worshippers left the building following Friday prayers. U.S. Marine Capt. Jeffrey Pool, a military spokesman, disputed the account. Pool said two roadside bombs exploded near a U.S. convoy in the Ramadi area. Five gunmen and one civilian driver were killed in the subsequent exchange of fire, Pool said. He said the incident occurred in a rural area with "no towns or mosques for miles." However, Taleb said 14 of the 19 people wounded in the blast were children. An Associated Press photographer at the Ramadi General Hospital saw at least three children with serious wounds being treated, including one who appeared to be in shock. One young boy had suffered a head wound. Sufiyan al-Dulaimi, a 32-year-old resident of Nasaf, said he was stepping out of the mosque when he heard an explosion, then saw a U.S. armored vehicle about a half-mile away fire and hit a wall of the mosque. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 Isn't there black in there, too, somewhere, OP? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-08-13 23:16 |
| #6 Explosion...near a mosque...after Friday prayers...near Ramadi. Sounds a lot like a work accident to me! It's amazing how many Iraqis (especially Sunnis) are red/green colorblind... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2005-08-13 17:29 |
| #5 An innocent child created by God provides a tasty treat for Satan's followers claiming to be Mujahadeen and Jihaadists. The moon worshippers and metorite cultists drool at the site of innocent children created by God. These children of God, the fruit of the one true God, are greedily plucked from the tree of life and bruised, abused and destroyed in defiance of God's plans. These so-called insurgents that blindly follow Satan's whispers and alluring calls kill anything and anyone in a mindless, heartless and unGodly manner whenever the posionous drool building up in their vile mouths begin to drain down their scaly and unclean bodies. The stench that rises from their uncleanliness, the hissing coming from their snake-like mouths, and the forked tongues betray these so called warriors, fighters, liberators, mujahadeen and jihaadists. They are truely known by the words they speak and the friends they keep. They are spawn of Satan to punish the families they were bred from. They are to punish those who have offended God's law. They are moon worshippers and death cult followers. They are not Muslims or Islamists. They are converts to militant Satanism plain and simple. They sacrifice the innocent and worship the flow of blood in hopes of enpowerment from Baphomet. They murder with no rhyme or reason to gain favor from Orion. They conive, deceive, lie and chew on the orfices of swine to please Baal. They condemn everyone unlike themselves to justify and rationalize their Satanic behavior. They aim for a path to reach the level of God-like existance to be feared, revered, respected and uncotested for the empowerment achieved. They aim for equality with that of the one true God. Their mouths are filled with words of confusion and blasphemy and invite God's wrath to wipe them out and everyone nearby. God's justice is God's justice to be his alone and yet these moon worshippers claiming to be Muslims snatch God's law as though it were of their's alone and use. Shame on these thugs and oppressors. Shame on UBL & his maiden Zawahiri, Zarqawi and all the other thugs reaching out for a golden moment of shameful fame of media attention by butchering the innocent at Satan's direction. Finally, shame on the ChiCom elements cozying up to these dogs to distract their satanic hunger for violence and continue their hungry eyes towards the West. |
| Posted by: Fun Dung Poo 2005-08-13 17:28 |
| #4 Newsweek reports that none of the now-legendary bomb-, fire- and-explosives' proof Korans were harmed. "Seems only infidel hands and toilets can harm our Holy Koran," said Ali Taleb. |
| Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-08-13 14:58 |
| #3 Ali Taleb does as much damage with his malicious lies as an insurgent. He needs to spend some time writing "I am a liar" maybe 5 million times on a jail cell wall |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-08-13 13:27 |
| #2 Where are those human shields when the Iraqis could really use them? They can chain themselves to mosques and schools to protect the children from the "minutemen." I suppose they're intrest is directly proportional the number of cameras. "what would noam chomsky do?" errrr I mean how many books can he hawk from 'em |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2005-08-13 12:59 |
| #1 However, Taleb said 14 of the 19 people wounded in the blast were children. Forgot to mention the baby ducks, asshat. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-08-13 12:39 |