Sunni mosque bombed as Iraqi tanks deploy in Baghdad

AFP ^ | February 27 2006

[jmc1969]

Iraqi tanks deployed in Baghdad to pacify the city after an eruption of sectarian violence, but the bombing of a Sunni mosque shattered the relative calm.

Four people were killed and 15 wounded in the attack outside a Sunni mosque in eastern Baghdad as the faithful were leaving evening prayers, security officials said.

The attack was the latest strike against Iraq's ousted Sunni elite since Shiite mobs unleashed a wave of vengeance against the embittered minority after a revered Shiite shrine was blown up north of Baghdad last Wednesday.

Before Monday's mosque bombing, the main Sunni political bloc, the National Concord Front, indicated it would return to talks if Sunni religious sanctuaries that it claimed were seized by Shiite militias were returned to them.

[jmc1969]

Iraq the Model has a great update it confirms exactly what I suspected. That the militias of the Shia clergy were behind the attacks on the Sunnis in order to put more political pressure on the US to give them more power so they can put in a pro-Iranian Interior and Denfense Minister. Basically, what they are trying to pretend is Iraqi Shia are at wits end and if you don't give us what we want there will be civil war.

ITM also believes that Sadr, Syria, and Iran are getting ready for another uprising against the US in Iraq.

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/

[jmc1969]

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/

[ExcursionGuy84]

Holy 155mm shells, Batman!

The Iraqi's got tank's up & running again.

[dennisw]

LOLOLOLOLOL

Muslim morons riot over cartoons and defaced Korans while it turns out that biggest destroyers of Mosques are Muslims

[ExcursionGuy84]

Muslim morons riot over cartoons and defaced Korans while it turns out that biggest destroyers of Mosques are Muslims

Physicians, heal thyselves.

[Yo-Yo]

Iraqi tanks? I didn't know they had any left!

[jmc1969]

They bought them from Eastern Europe. There are tons of left over Soviet Tanks there.

[jmc1969]

Ping

[Tom Bombadil]

ITM also believes that Sadr, Syria, and Iran are getting ready for another uprising against the US in Iraq.

Sadr better find a hole then.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Warring, primitive 7th century tribes, killing each other and destroying their terrorist-laden holes with gold domes. Let them have at it.

[Calpernia]

General Abdel Aziz Mohammed, the defence ministry's chief of operations, announced tank deployments in parts of Baghdad, and warned that soldiers were now ordered to arrest anyone carrying weapons illegally.

The move appeared to be aimed at cracking down on Shiite mobs suspected of targeting Sunnis in retribution for Wednesday's bombing of the revered shrine in Samarra, north of the capital.

(snip)

"Fear is still the master of the situation," said Ali Adnan, a 27-year-old Sunni engineer whose father was briefly kidnapped amid Shiite reprisals against Sunnis.

[Deetes]

BUMP

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!