"Tim Blair" Blog
WEAPONS FOUND, TURBAN ABANDONED
Americans are behaving badly in Baghdad, according to The Guardian:
Surrounded by upturned chairs and an abandoned turban, Sabah Al-Kaisey surveyed his ransacked office yesterday.
The American troops who burst into his mosque on Thursday morning had smashed down the front gate, broken the air conditioners and ripped up the carpets. They had also thrown several Korans on the floor and allegedly punched the man giving the call to prayer in the face.
"They even took our nuts," said Mr Kaisey yesterday.
They got your nuts a long time ago, pal. But why were these US troops being so unruly?
The troops who raided the Ibn Taymiyah mosque, used by Baghdad's Sunnis, appear to have been looking for weapons used by Iraq's resistance. They recovered a couple of AK-47s, hand grenades and an anti-aircraft missile, US military officials said.
Hmmm. Explaining that stash of goodies might be a little difficult.
Abdul Sattar, the mosque's imam, said the weapons were used by its guards. "They were there to protect ourselves," he told the Arabic TV station Al-Jazeera.
Excuse me ... an anti-aircraft missile?
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