Iraqi mosque ablaze after US air strike

[DuctapeFatwa]

US air strikes have set a mosque ablaze after Iraqi fighters and US marines engaged in heavy clashes in its vicinity in the western town of Hiyt.

Eyewitnesses told Aljazeera that at least one Iraqi was killed and five wounded in the fighting in Hiyt on Monday.


Hiyt is on the main road that follows the Euphrates river towards Syria.


A US military helicopter was downed in the same city in earlier clashes on Monday, eyewitnesses told Aljazeera.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5FA41DD4-C3A1-42A5-8503-831418384965.htm

[roguevalley]

1. oh crap. this just gets better and better doesn't it.

[dweller]

2. That's not news

we'll likely see on the national news tonite, is it?

(welcome back DTF . . .say hello to Tin for me when you get the chance.)

dp

[pinniped]

3. Was the intergalactic terror mastermind al-Zarqawi holed-up inside?

Silly question, of course he was.

Pretty soon he will make the top ten list of bullshit reasons for waging this illegal war against Iraq.

[w4rma]

4. If Bush wins, I wonder if he'll level every mosque there just out of

evil spite. His freeper followers want him to do that.