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| IEDs in mosque compound | |
| 2006-05-09 | |
 BAGHDAD, Iraq – An explosion occurred in a building within the Sheik Abdel Kader mosque compound at approximately 6 p.m. May 7 in Rusafa, a neighborhood of east Baghdad. According to the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Division, the bomb exploded, causing a fire. The Iraqi fire department responded and began suppressing the fire when firefighters noticed an improvised explosive device inside the mosque.
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| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #9 Just being good muslim students and doing what their book says. This is normal Talab/A.Q. islamic teaching at work. |
| Posted by: SPoD 2006-05-09 17:11 |
| #8 For safety's sake, the firemen really should have detonated the IEDs in situ so as to avoid the possibility of accidental explosion during any attempts to disarm or move them. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-05-09 15:10 |
| #7 Bomb-making madrassas. Such good holy students. |
| Posted by: Shuns Uleating3851 2006-05-09 12:14 |
| #6 I wonder if it would occur to these idiots to round up the worshipers and question them. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-05-09 10:17 |
| #5 a fire at the mosqueÂ’s school, which is located in an adjacent building. A fire in the chemistry department's hazmat storage facility, no doubt. Funny the firemen didn't see the colored diamond upon arrival. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-05-09 08:00 |
| #4 Update (also CentCom - I'd link but I seem to break things when I try it in comments): The explosion originally reported as occurring in the Sheik Abdel Kader Mosque {who runs this mosque? Who attends it? How big is it? How 'important'?} turned out to be a fire at the mosqueÂ’s school, which is located in an adjacent building. According to Iraqi Army officials, at approximately 6:43 p.m. May 7, Iraqi firefighters responded to a fire in the mosqueÂ’s school in the Rusafa neighborhood of east Baghdad. The firefighters notified the Iraqi Army they had discovered explosives in the parking lot of the school. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and an Iraqi police explosive ordnance disposal team, arrived and discovered an assortment of rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, C-4 explosives and other bomb-making materials in the school. As reported earlier by the Iraqi Army, indications are the school was being used as an improvised-explosive devise production and staging area. Iraqi Soldiers reported finding several completed IEDs staged in vehicles and ready to be taken to an emplacement site. According to Iraqi Army officials, the guards at the mosque were observed by firefighters running away from the scene. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-05-09 07:16 |
| #3 The "holy site" crap goes by the wayside once munitons are found within the precincts. This holy site ought to be bulldozed after all the "korans' are removed by "holy" men not affiliated with the Mosque. I hope the "holey" men from this place are down town for some RAB style interviewing. |
| Posted by: SPoD 2006-05-09 02:45 |
| #2 The Iraqi police explosive ordinance disposal team arrived at the mosque to clear the |
| Posted by: RD 2006-05-09 01:32 |
| #1 Iraqi army officials are engaging local leaders to gain more information about the mosque and activities occurring there. One hopes they are engaging them.... vigorously |
| Posted by: DanNY 2006-05-09 00:04 |