7 suicide cars found in Iraq mosque

[leftchick]

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/iraq29e_20041129.htm

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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A mosque raided by security forces in southern Baghdad contained a workshop to rig suicide car bombs, with seven vehicles ready for terror attacks, an Iraqi Defense Ministry official said Sunday.

National Guard forces raided the Sunni Muslim Al-Yassen Mosque in the Baghdad area of Abu Dshir on Saturday, said Gen. Saleh Sarhan. In addition to the seven cars, guardsmen found 30 rocket-propelled grenades, high-powered rifles, mortars and remote control detonators, Sarhan said.

He said the mosque leader and 18 other people were detained.

Anti-U.S. guerrillas used about 60 mosques in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, to stockpile weapons and provide cover during a U.S.-led offensive in the city earlier this month, the U.S. military said. One of the mosques was described as a general arms depot capable of equipping guerrillas across much of Iraq.

[Englander]

1. I guess this is as credible as "no civilians killed in Fallujah"?

or the "elections will be free and open to all"?

[seriousstan]

5. I guess you believe they just spontaneously appear fully rigged...

or haven't you read the rest of the story?

In Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, a car bomb killed six people aboard a bus Sunday.


Another car bomb exploded on a road leading to Baghdad's airport, wounding two U.S. soldiers and damaging a military vehicle, a military statement said.

Or maybe this.....

A bomber has blown up his vehicle outside a police station west of the town of Ramadi, killing at least six people and wounding nine others.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D917AAF-C0CC-4AB3-B285-7E5E57D5057B.htm

Whatever your take, they have to be assembled somewhere and there seems to be a history of using the mosques as a sort of redoubt. You may remember that fight in Najaf.

[Sara Beverley]

7. Well, I guess we should get the hell out their country then.

No matter how you look at it, if the US military wasn't there, if the invasion had not taken place, this would not be happening! Cause and effect.

[The Stranger]

12. Every building in Iraq is now a mosque.

Anyone who is not yet dead is a terrorist or a potential terrorist.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. Wagons of Mass Destruction?

They're getting closer and closerer.



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[maddezmom]

3. wonder if the vehicles all had Texas tags??

:shrug:

[rainbow4321]

9. Sounds like there is a car lot full of them...

Guess all the Texas SUVs are having to go over there now to get their gas?? "Fill 'er up...."



http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/111804dninttruck.6d557d8d.html

For instance, just look at yesterday's headline from The Dallas Morning News:

SUV with Texas registration found at Fallujah bomb workshop

An "embedded" CNN crew allegedly found Zarqawi's HQ. They can assume as much, because "al Qaeda organization" was written on the wall. Seriously. We're awaiting confirmation of "Bad Guy Hideout - No Gurls Allowed!" And there was this SUV, surrounded by bags of sodium nitrate, with 15 Iraqi plates inside and a "Texas registration sticker...on the truck's window."

The most incredible aspect of this is not the truck, but that the report of its provenance could be delivered without so much as a raised eyebrow. What will it take for CNN's incurious Paula Zahn to say "Wait a minute - what the fuck?"

[KingChicken]

4. It's not good to drive those things around inside the Mosque...

Could break something or get oil on the prayer rugs....

[Eagle_Eye]

6. It's not safe

Running a car indoors could lead to carbon monoxide poisoning. Someone could die from that.

[BraveMan]

8. This makes one wonder . . .

. . . what is in the mosque down the road.

[Nihil]

10. Oh no, you don't mean ...

... people praying to Allah do you?
We can't have that! Kill 'em all lads!!

:eyes:

[Sabriel]

11. Bombvergnugen

Pure insurgent pleasure.... Do they expect us to believe we are over there because some cars have bombs in them? If that were true, Ford would be a wasteland now because of the Pinto.

[maxsolomon]

13. why doubt THIS story?

it seems pretty reasonable.

this is how an empire suppresses an insurgency.

[TahitiNut]

14. WMD = Wagons of Moderate Destruction?

How dare they not throw roses? Those mosques should have rose gardens.