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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (3103)	1/3/2004 7:06:50 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Good news and about time. Better late than never and I hope mosques continue to be raided until the islam terrorists understand that their so called holy place will no longer be off limits and a safe place to store their weapons for the purpose of murder. U.S. raids Baghdad mosque, worshippers protest By Luke Baker 02 Jan 2004 19:32 reuters.com BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military raided a Sunni mosque in western Baghdad and said it had seized arms and explosives in an operation that sparked an angry Muslim protest after Friday prayers. More than 1,000 worshippers at the al-Tabool mosque denounced Thursday's raid in an emotional demonstration and accused U.S. troops of trampling on the Koran, or Muslim holy book. "American soldiers entered the mosque with their shoes on and with machine guns in their hands," the imam, Abdulsatar al-Janabi, told Reuters, adding the raid had lasted five hours. "They trampled on the holy Koran, beat up some of the worshippers and stole computers and a donations box," he said. Others claimed that a page was torn from the Koran. Protesters screamed and cried, chanting: "God is great" and "America is the enemy of God". Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, a U.S. military spokesman, said U.S. troops had conducted the operation after a tip off from Iraqis and netted a wide array of weaponry to be used against occupying forces facing a relentless insurgency. "Over recent months, the U.S. 1st Armored Division has received numerous reports from Iraqis that the al-Tabool mosque was being used for criminal and terrorist activities," Kimmitt told a news conference on Friday. "U.S. forces, led by the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and the Iraqi police therefore conducted a cordon and search." He said troops had found several sticks of high explosives, hand grenades, AK-47 rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and thousands of rounds of ammunition. "There is clear evidence from what we seized that this mosque was being used for things other than free religious expression," Kimmitt said. He said 32 people had been detained, including several believed to be foreigners, and dismissed suggestions that U.S. forces might have defiled the mosque. "We are aware of the allegation that coalition forces tore pages from the Koran... But I can assure you that the greatest possible care was taken to respect the sanctity of the mosque," he said. Al-Janabi, the imam, denied the raid had netted much weaponry. "In every mosque in Iraq we keep light guns for self protection," he said. "They claim it's an arsenal of weapons, but it's just for self protection." He said the raid showed U.S. forces were persecuting Sunni Muslims, who were favoured under ousted President Saddam Hussein, and warned there would be repercussions. "The army of Sunnis will come back again," he said.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (3103)	1/3/2004 7:57:05 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

The recent cancellations of the international flights is another ploy Do you know what you sound like? So you're saying there was no threat, they just cancelled flights for political purposes? Have you got any evidence? As for progress against Al Qaeda, do you think the last two years have developed according to Al Qaeda's plan? The plan, courtesy of OBL himself, was give America a bloody nose, and keeping hitting, and America would run, as they did in Lebanon and Somalia. Well, did America run? Did Al Qaeda get in even one more blow after America took the war to Al Qaeda's own bases in Afghanistan? Against soft targets in Tunisa and Bali and Turkey, yes. But against America, not a thing. So you say that proves that the Bush adminstration has done nothing. What would you say if there had been another September 11th-style attack?