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To: LindyBill who wrote (79705)10/22/2004 11:00:32 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793955
 
ING Raids Mosque
By Alan Brain

From Reuters via the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) : Iraqi forces backed by US troops left a mosque they were raiding for suspected insurgents in Mosul after coming under fire, witnesses said.They said American troops and Iraqi National Guards had surrounded a mosque in the northern city during the Friday midday prayer sermon and broken the gate of the compound. A US military spokesman said 106 Iraqi National Guards had conducted the raid and no US forces had entered the mosque. “There were no US forces within two city blocks,” Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hastings said. “US participation was restricted to the outer cordon.” Earlier the preacher, Sheikh Rayan Tawfiq, said that unarmed worshippers had prevented US and Iraqi forces from entering the mosque itself. He told Reuters by telephone the American troops sparked an uproar when they entered the women’s section of the mosque. A US military statement later said the Iraqi National Guards had detained suspected bomb-makers in the mosque. “As the (National Guard) soldiers were searching the mosque, terrorists fired small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars at them,” the statement said, adding that one civilian had been slightly wounded....
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