Gunmen Attack 3 Mosques In Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/05/AR2006030500838.html

Gunmen Attack 3 Mosques In Iraq

By John Ward Anderson and Saad Sarhan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, March 6, 2006; Page A11

BAGHDAD, March 5 -- Unidentified gunmen attacked at least three mosques in Iraq over the weekend, killing four people and prolonging a nearly two-week spate of sectarian violence that has deepened animosity between the country's Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

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Officials offered confused accounts of an attack Sunday morning on al-Rahman Sunni mosque in Baghdad's Jihad neighborhood, an area in the western part of the capital that is considered a hotbed of insurgent activity.

The Associated Press initially reported that police said the mosque was attacked by commandos from the country's Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry, and that three people, including the imam and his son, were killed.

The news service later reported that police had "changed their account," and that the mosque was attacked by "several masked gunmen." The later version quoted the imam as saying that "a gang using 10 cars stormed the mosque." The imam added that the men were dressed in military uniforms and arrived in cars similar to those used by the Interior Ministry.

[madrchsod]

1. read this.....

http://baghdadtreasure.blogspot.com/2006/03/uprising-anniversary.html#comments
Treasure of Baghdad: Uprising Anniversary
certainly puts bush`s gift of freedom in a whole new light

[bemildred]

2. Great post, great testimony.

Time for a little Aldous Huxley:

Means determine ends; and must be like the ends proposed. Means intrinsically different from the ends proposed achieve ends like themselves, not like those they were meant to achieve. Violence and war will produce a peace and an social organization having the potentialities for more violence and war.

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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfils our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Sweet and decorous to murder, lie, torture, for the sake of the fatherland.

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Both from "Eyeless in Gaza" -- Aldous Huxley 1936

[Blue_Forney05]

3. If this is not

civil war, then I don't know what is. We need to get out now before we inflame the whole middle east!