Militants Bomb Two Churches in Mosul

[maddezmom]

MOSUL, Iraq - Militants bombed two churches Tuesday in Mosul, wounding three people in a coordinated attack apparently aimed at stirring trouble between religious groups in this ethnically diverse northern city.



Deputy provincial governor Khasro Gouran said one blast struck a church about 2:30 p.m. in eastern Mosul's Wihda neighborhood, wounding three people.


An hour later, gunmen stormed a church in western Mosul, ordering a handful of people outside before bombing it, Gouran said. There were no casualties.


The religious denominations of the churches were not immediately clear.


more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20041207/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_churches_bombed

[SpiralHawk]

1. Chapter XXXLLLCCCVVVVII

of tHe gReaT jiHaD-crUsadE

Generic motto for all koMbaTanTs:

"I have the truth and I am going to shove it down your throat."

[PsychoDad]

2. aimed at stirring trouble

Who benifits the most from a disorganized Iraq?

Creating dissent between religious groups?

Sounds like the Crusaders are the ones who would stand to benifit in such a case.

[maddezmom]

3. Negroponte's guys have been working overtime...JMO

[bemildred]

5. Nah, there would have been more dead people. nt

[Barrett808]

4. Although there's some evidence to suggest the US is playing provocateur...

This could also be spontaneously erupting ethnic strife. A number of Christians left for Mosul this week and made a thinly veiled threat of mobilizing a 10,000-strong militia.

Under the enormous stress of a brutal occupation, it's easy to imagine that ethnic warfare would erupt between the most dissimilar ethnicities first.

[maddezmom]

6. update on churches: Gunmen Attack Armenian, Chaldean Churches in Mosul

Members of the churches, one Armenian, the other Chaldean, said gunmen burst in, forced people to leave and set off explosions inside the buildings, damaging them but hurting no one.


Smoke poured from the Armenian church and flames could be seen inside the Chaldean church, Reuters reporters said. It was not clear how many people had been in the churches when they were attacked but the number was apparently not large.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=4&u=/nm/20041207/wl_nm/iraq_churches_dc

[maddezmom]

7. notice the use of the word "gunmen"again...

I think it's code for "unidentified military"... :shrug:

[Massachusetts]

8. It was Jimmy Swaggart

who did this.O8) :evilgrin: