US targets opposition clerics in Mosul

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=8742&TagID=2

The US military is acting to stem the rising tide of radical Islamism in Iraq's third largest city and rooting out preachers held to be using their sermons to incite attacks on Americans.

Alarmed by a surge of deadly attacks in Mosul, a Sunni Muslim stronghold of 1.7 million Arabs and Kurds, coalition forces are running what the US commander, Major General David Petraeus, calls a "race to win over the hearts and minds of the people".

A team of US army chaplains is liaising with imams at the city's main mosques in an attempt to reassure the once dominant Sunni Arabs that they have not lost their stake in the new Iraq.

The attacks, including one on Sunday in which two American soldiers were shot dead and then apparently mutilated, reveal a simmering resentment among sections of Mosul's Arab population, particularly the large number of unemployed and disaffected youth.

Last night, gunmen in Mosul used a roadside bomb to ambush US soldiers on patrol, then fired on them, wounding one soldier.
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More reporting from ME sources.

[IndianaGreen]

1. Are we using Christian chaplains in Iraq now?

Lieutenant Colonel Chester Egert, chaplain with Gen Petraeus's 101st Airborne Division, coordinates the religious outreach programme.

What Iraqis need is J-E-S-U-S, the panacea for all of our troubles. Convert them or kill them!

:puke:

Using the chaplaincy to keep a nation under colonial subjugation is not a good idea!

[izzie]

2. The only site I have is Religious Right-Revealed

I would say they are sending people in but it is not in the open. I would like a good site on this stuff.I am willing to bet it is making alot of trouble in Iraq. Bush does make a mess and this would be par to keep his bass happy even if it kills off a few every day.