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To: LindyBill who wrote (60767)	8/16/2004 11:04:56 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	of 793912

It looks like taking out this particular Mosque would be the Shiite equivalent of the Catholic reaction to destroying St Peters Basilica Who knows, really? It's not like it hasn't been damaged before. It was damaged in the fighting in 1991, when Saddam put down the uprising. The Arab Street is particularly good at whining about their sensibilities. But most of it is just a weapon to compensate for their weakness - "you mustn't touch our mosque, infidel, but we're allowed to use it as an armoury and a firing base". There's a limit to how many times you can play that card. The dog that isn't barking is the hawza, the real religious hierarcy of Najaf. I don't hear any fatwas from them.

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