Suicide Bomber at Mosque in Iraq Kills 29
- Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:50pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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A suicide bomber blew himself up inside Baghdad’s largest Sunni mosque Sunday night. Iraqi police and hospital officials say 29 worshippers have been killed by the suicide bomber.
Officials say 38 more people were injured in the 9:40 p.m strike on the Um al-Qura mosque during prayers in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Al-Jamiaah. Parliament lawmaker Khalid al-Fahdawi was among the dead.
Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, a spokesman for Baghdad’s military operations command, confirmed the attack happened inside the Um al-Qura mosque during prayers in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Al-Jamiaah.
The blue-domed building is the largest Sunni mosque in Baghdad.
The attack hit Sunnis who were praying in a special service during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, which ends Tuesday. It demonstrates anew that security measures to protect Iraqis as U.S. forces prepare to leave remain riddled with gaps, and shows the extent to which militants want to extend violence even as the eight-year- U.S. presence winds down.
That the bomber detonated his explosives vest inside the mosque is particularly alarming, because it is reminiscent of a 2006 attack on a Shiite shrine in the Sunni city of Samarra that fueled widespread sectarian violence and brought Iraq to the brink of civil war.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday’s bombing. Suicide bombings generally are a hallmark of al-Qaida, which is dominated by Sunnis.
The mosque’s security is provided by the government-supported Sunni Endowment, and al-Moussawi raised the possibility that the bomber had inside help.
“For sure there must have been someone inside the mosque who helped the bomber,” al-Moussawi said. “It must have been someone who is protecting the mosque.”
On Saturday 33 people died across Iraq, including 24 that were incinerated on a bus carrying vacationing families through northern Iraq that collided head-on with a car.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Comments (72)
BOMUSTGO
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:26pmSharia law: is the body of Islamic religious law. The term means “way” or “path to the water source”.
Report Post »The path to the water source??? I was wondering if the verse below could be a possible reference to sharia law.This was written before Islam existed.
Could there be a connection here????
Rev 12:15-17 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Steve
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:22amThats a stretch.
Report Post »bioengineer
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:08pmI bet you call yourself a “Christian” too.
Matthew 5
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye amay be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:33pmCan’t count on a terrorist to do anything right. Only 29?
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:30pmDon’t doubt the power of ones and twos. Since 9/11 Muslims have committed nearly 18,000 unique jihad terrorist attacks with many many times that number of dead bodies. They don’t need to kill hundreds every time, they are killing ten or twenty every day of the year, year after year, and it adds up. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:31pmlol…lol…lol…lol…lol…lol
Report Post »Seede
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:27pmWhere is good ole Rose Ellen when you need her? Good example of the Muslim’s peaceful way of life. When they aren’t hanging nine year old children for sport or hiding bombs in their girly skirts they kill each other. That’s their mentality. They all have the same little allah and simply kill for the sport of it. That’s the way they have have been taught by their father Muhammad. Where is their arab spring now? Biggest bunch of drunkards and hypocrites that ever existed. They wipe their noses on the sharia law and then condemn the Christians.
Report Post »FireRose
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:30pmI have been learning a little more about Muslim beliefs lately, and man, it is messed up. Middle Eastern Muslims especially have a violent and strict mentality.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:25amFIREROSE
Try this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgsrnmzxEUY&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYoAoHVOFQ&feature=related
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:09amFireRose:
You got that right and when you look into it the two sides are really fighting like the Jews and Arabs after Abraham’s wife kicked out his first born son Ishmael with his mother because she screwed up and gave the slave woman to Abraham to fulfil G-d’s Promise to Sarah that at her old age G-d would provide them with a Son. And that lineage has been fighting ever since.
But was is really peculiar is that they don’t fight over religion, they fight over the lineage of who can be an Imam in the sect of Mohamed. Because if you break it down to its basic parts Mohamed came 600 years after Jesus so there was at least some verbal tradition about Jesus’s life and times and his followers would have been in the area.
The also fight over which City in the Peninsula of Arabia whether it is Mecca or Medina is the true Holy City and on and on and on.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:48amtrueone55, that is not true about Ishmael. At most a small portion of Arabs were from that line, and in any case it is highly unlikely that Muhammad was. The only reason Muhammad included Abraham in his Koran was to attempt to glom onto the stories of the Bible, to try to legitimize his own new religion he was inventing. The same names are used as in the Bible but the stories are entirely different, including of course Jesus who Islam denies died on the cross, denies he rose from the dead, therefore denies the entire Christian religion. The differences with what is in the Torah are also significant. Meaning they can’t all be true, the Bible and the Torah agree as to Abraham, the Koran is the outlier.
http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/OnlineDiscipleship/UnderstandingIslam/Is_the_Arab_nation_descended_from_Ishmael.aspx
Report Post »threecats407
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:00pmGood! 29 less and if you take the ‘breed like rats’ factor in it amounts to hundreds.
Report Post »FireRose
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:21pmYou resemble Hitler more than a Patriot when you speak like that. When you celebrate murder, you do exactly what their extremists do.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:44pmfirerose, look at the history of islam, muhammad was worse than hitler, he massacred all the Jews of Arabia, just what hitler tried to do in Germany but failed. Islam and Muhammad are worse than Hitler by any rational analysis. Hitler was stopped, Islam continues. The Koran contains worse than the post you were responding to.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:45pmAchmed the dead terrorist…Premature detonation.
Report Post »Papa
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:28pmSelf-cleaning oven.
Report Post »eubanksray
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:12pmThese sects of Muslims, there are at least two different kinds…maybe more…,hate each other. It’s all about POWER. It has been going on forever. Why do we now evolve our country?…We helped them get rid of a monster….now we should get out…SO THEY CAN CHOOSE ANOTHER!! It will never end…and they need us to buy their oil..simply…FINISH. GET OUT AND COME HOME. …We have bigger problems here.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:41pmI’ve replied several times but the post keeps getting censored. Look at history, they have only been fighting since the 7th century. I would write more to explain but don’t know what is being censored.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:30amThey have ONLY been fighting since the 7th century. Islam was created in the 7th century.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:19amSteve, to say “forever” would include all of the thousands of years BC plus the years AD up to the 7th century. Muhammad was the instigator to the fighting, it started with him, and as soon as he died his immediate followers split into two factions and have been fighting even among themselves since. If Muhammad had never been born Arabia and the other countries controlled by Islam would have developed more or less like the rest of the world, as Christian, Jew, Hindu, other, and those parts of the world would be normal. This isn‘t to say there wouldn’t be wars, that happens, but with Islam it is literally part of the religion, war against infidels, and due to the two major sects in Islam they also fight between themselves. When people say they have been fighting forever they seem to dismiss the unique aspects of Islam that cause fighting.
Report Post »the wireworker
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:07pmhe will be a wild as* of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers [and dwell to the east of them]….Genesis 16:12
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:07pmAm beginning to join the “let’s leave and let them kill one another” club. Thought Bush was a bit naive when he thought that by removing Saddam, those people would relish freedom. But thought that it was worth a try. Guess what? Didn’t help. They didn’t change and maybe we should leave. One thing for sure, we need to protect ourselves from these crazed, suicidal fanatics. Think this is Mother Nature’s way of curbing the population. Hopefully, them and not us.
Report Post »FireRose
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:23pmWhile I believe we do, in fact, need to protect ourselves, saying that twenty-nine murders was “mother nature’s way of curbing the population” is pretty Darwinistic, and as one other post on this story, sounds a little like ethnic cleansing.
Report Post »bigbear_awake
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let us prey
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:20pmEven at the FBI, he notes, an Iranian-born Muslim has taken over the agency’s weapons of mass destruction program.
Stung by workplace discrimination lawsuits by Arab and Muslim employees, the FBI has come under pressure to hire more Arab and Muslim agents and language specialists and promote existing ones, while clearing them for higher security levels.
Read more: Underpublicized threat deep in White House http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=337321#ixzz1WMvCbFO0
Report Post »bigbear_awake
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:02pmFBI: Penetration by radical agents worse than thought
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=337321
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:53pmSo, what was the point of this one?!?!? Was he killing those “infidels” ??? Uh, its a mosque… do these blood thirty killers and murders have no kind of line not to step over, I mean… its just pathetic and then we are supposed to somehow feel sorry for these people, to “feel their pain” gimme a break… they all act like children, they can’t sit down and get their way through normal, grown up means, so they resort to murder and killing, yeah, that’s really productive.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:06pmExactly right, Nation building is a joke and should never be tried again! True Freedom must be earned and will never work if the people are not ready for it. That peace loving religion knows no bounds, they kill infidels and muslims alike, the young the old, no matter. Islam is a cult of intimidation, subjegation, death and destruction. History has very few examples of muslim peace and harmony.
Let the world remember, American soldiers did not even fire on mosques, but these muslims blow them up.
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:25pmHas anyone heard anything from Russia these days ?
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:42pmQuite frankly, no matter how much we help these countries, how much food, medicine, money we provide them, they hate us…
We end up getting bad feelings from the global community no matter what… It gets to the point where we should just carpet bomb the whole damned region with tactical nukes, wipe the entire region out completely and then we’ll get judged just the same as helping them… .the difference? instead of 10 years an a trillion spent and over 5K of American soldiers dead…. 1 day, a few billion in nukes and done.
Getting so sick of trying to help these ungrateful pieces of garbage, let them all rot and die in their own hatred and filth.
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:42pmMaybe the bomber had been watching the media coverage of hurricane Ilene, thought it was the end of the world, and decided to just end it all.
Report Post »metalurgy
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:33pmThis why we can safely pull out the troops out of the middle east and let them all kill each other. We don’t need to be there. Bin Laden is dead. Let’s call it a win an bring the boys and girls home.
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:05pmSHERIA-NEVER……Still… LOL…LOL….LOL….LOL
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 10:08pmRight on Metal, right on!
Report Post »discus02
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:31pmTell me why did we out Saddam Hussein. We replaced a thug with thousands of them. At least Saddam kept this under control and kept Iran in place!
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:20pmWell..at least he kept it in the religion.
Report Post »libertytreecaretaker
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:10pmBomber in a mosque! sounds like an oximoron. Good tactic soon no more bombers or mosques!
Report Post »IMAWAKENOW
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:10pmThe world really is on fire. I personally was surprised to hear of a suicide bombing in a mosque, You know, muslim killing muslim. What are we there for? who are we trying to save. They hate US but they seem to hate each other almost as much. We have enough problems in our part of the world without trying to fix something that has been broken for thousands of years. Get out now, let them marter their own and deal with whatever is left. By deal I mean step back and push that big red button and turn them into glass if they still want a piece of us.
Report Post »Charles
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:27pmDon‘t you know we’re there for the oil?. And of course thats a joke. We have received nothing. They should be giving us oil or we should be taking it, but their primary contract after we freed them of Hussein was with the chinese.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:09pmLacking any westerners to kill they kill each other. Much more preferable I’d say!
Report Post »toto
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:08pmSince it’s been demonstrated that mosques are not really all that sacred to radical Muslims that we should identify the radical mosques they anywhere we find them and destroy them. It would be a good start.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:06pmWe have been keeping sides separate and using US cash to quell the sectarian violence for 8 years. Meanwhile these sects have been at each other’s throats for thousands of years. Any guesses as to what happens when we leave, and take our bribe money with us?
Muslims have no interest in compromise for the sake of a nation state. It’s all about domination of whatever view the sect holds, and settling scores that have been around for generations.
Report Post »Oddness
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:27pmIts really all about just keeping them safe, that‘s really our motto anymore isn’t it?
Report Post »pecosval
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:59pmGood….let them kill each other
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:55pmI guess the bomber was very religious.
Report Post »Greenwood
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:55pmYes the religion of peace
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