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Wednesday, May 12, 2004


US strikes Karbala mosque
US Army forces in Karbala took the Mukhaiyam Mosque there under fire early today (link).

The strike on the Mukhaiyam Mosque brought hundreds of American soldiers to within a third of a mile of two of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam, the shrines of the martyrs Hussein and Abbas. A building behind the mosque was fired on, detonating a huge weapons cache, and soldiers stormed the mosque, chasing insurgents out into a hotel and alley.
Fighting continues as American soldiers tighten the ring around Muqtada al-Sadr.


by Donald Sensing, 5/12/2004 08:07:09 AM. Permalink |  





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