Is this How we "Win the Peace"?
By Byron LaMasters
I don't think so:
.S. Marines in the third day of a battle to pacify this Sunni Muslim city fired rockets that hit a mosque compound today, and witnesses said as many as 40 people were killed. Shiite-inspired violence spread to key cities in Iraq.
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An Associated Press reporter in Fallujah saw cars ferrying the dead and wounded from the Abdul-Aziz al-Samarrai mosque. Witnesses said a helicopter fired three missiles into the compound, destroying part of a wall surrounding the mosque but not damaging the main building.
The strike came as worshippers had gathered for afternoon prayers, witnesses said.
If terrorists or insurgents are hiding out in mosques, we should contain them, and force them or starve them out. If firing on a mosque is absolutely necessary, then for God's sake, don't fire on it when worshippers are gathered for afternoon prayers. Firing missles at mosques, and killing Muslim worshippers is the last way to acheive peace in Iraq.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at April 7, 2004 12:22 PM
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if the insurgents are hiding in mosques ,dont you think the worshippers at afternoon prayers are aware of them????? it is a traditional technique of these cowardly animals to hide behind their own women and children to get sympathy for their"cause"... if the worshippers really were innocent then would'nt they not go to the mosques filled with armed fighters in the first place?????? i know I would not.
but then again ,, i am not stupid.
