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To: Neocon who wrote (153213)	12/3/2004 10:16:50 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If the iraqi shiaa won't defend themselves against zarquawi terrorists and baathists who wish to put them back into their saddam cage, then these people are all not worth dying for. Same for the good sunnis who cannot seem to choice sides. It is time for iraqis to rise up and kick these bastards out of their country while killing the rest. Then they can deal with the US occupation on equal terms. Two attacks today--one with tens of iraqi cops killed and now the mosque. Time for them to fight for their own freedom. Mike cnn.com Suicide bombers plow van into mosque Attacks rock Baghdad From Mohammed Tawfeeq and Faris Qasira CNN Friday, December 3, 2004 Posted: 9:03 AM EST (1403 GMT) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four suicide bombers drove a minibus loaded with explosives into a northern Baghdad Shiite mosque early Friday, killing 14 civilians, many who had gathered for morning prayers, police said. The bombing was part of a wave of simultaneous attacks in Baghdad that killed 25 people, including 11 Iraqi police officers killed in an attack on their station, in addition to the bombers. Dr. Sabah Kadhim, senior adviser to Iraq's minister of the interior, said 19 civilians were wounded in the mosque attack in the Sunni al-Adhamiya neighborhood. At about the same time as the bombing, insurgents fired five rockets at the al-Adhamiyah police station, but no injuries were reported. Another Baghdad police station came under attack. An Iraqi police officer from al-Bayaa police station in the al-Amil district said more than 20 insurgents, driving 11 vehicles, stormed the station, carrying rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. Eleven Iraqi police officers were killed and five others wounded. The insurgents also freed more than 20 prisoners in a cell at the police station, which straddles the road to the Baghdad airport. The road has become one of the city's bloodiest locations. Fighting flares again in Mosul In Mosul, in what is the most significant fighting in weeks, U.S. and Iraqi troops killed at least 12 insurgents in a firefight Friday, the U.S. military said. The U.S. military said the battle started when a U.S. patrol in western Mosul came under sustained fire in a carefully planned attack. One of the bases insurgents used was a mosque, where the U.S. military said there were about 35 to 40 insurgents. Last month, insurgents launched attacks against police stations and government offices in Mosul around the same time the U.S.-led offensive in Falluja took place. Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi forces detained 53 suspected insurgents in northern Iraq, authorities said Friday. A major cordon and search operation was conducted by several units, including the Iraqi National Guard, on Thursday in the village of al-Bi'aj, located 40 kilometers (about 25 miles) east of the Syrian border, U.S. military officials said. Al-Bi'aj is a suspected staging area for insurgent fighters in northern Iraq and foreign fighters coming from Syria. During that operation, 46 people were detained. Two other units detained seven people suspected of planning and conducting car bomb attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces. Those detentions came during an operation in a village northeast of Mosul, military officials said.