January 10, 2006
Mosque Raided, Cleric Detained in Baghdad as Troops Search for Jill Carroll
Wait, you mean a mosque might be connected to the abduction by al Qaeda of American journalist Jill Carroll? We at The Jawa Report are shocked, SHOCKED,
SHOCKED! And how do certain segments of the Sunni population react? Why, they are indignent that the insurgent supporting Association of Muslim Scholars would be implicated or that any infidel Shia, Christian, or Jew would dare enter a mosque (which we all know are
never used to hide insurgents or weapons).
Christian Science Monitor:
Several hundred Sunni Arabs protested Tuesday the raid on a Baghdad mosque Saturday by US and Iraqi soldiers looking for Jill Carroll, a kidnapped freelance journalist on assignment for The Christian Science Monitor....
The US military told AFP that the raid was linked to the hunt for Carroll. Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a US military spokesman, said the raid was ordered "as a direct result of a tip by an Iraqi civilian that activities related to the kidnapping were being carried out inside the mosque." ...
"Both Iraqi and coalition forces raided the mosque in the early morning hours in order to minimize the impact on worshipers and the surrounding neighborhood," Johnson told AFP Tuesday.
Six people were detained for questioning, he added.
The Association of Muslim Scholars, which is based at the mosque, confirmed that one of its members, Yunis Aikali, and five mosque guards were arrested in the raid.
More in The Jawa Report's
Hostage Archive and the newly created
Jill Carroll Archive.
UPDATE: Just as I was posting this Traderrob saw the same story and posted on it here along with satellite images of the mosque and neighborhood in question.
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Somewhere in all of the Middle East there have got to be Muslims willing to be mercenary mosque-stormers. We've got a base in Bahrain, a country with a downtrodden Shiite underclass that amounts to 75% of the population, many of whom would love to blast on some Sunnis for a few dinars. We need a foreign legion for this sort of thing.
Posted by: ShannonKW at January 10, 2006 06:07 PM (dT1MB)
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Muslims are completely undependable, as treachery is considered a high art in muslim countries.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 10, 2006 06:47 PM (0yYS2)
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Below is a speech given by Sheikh Harith Sulayman al-Dari - secretary general of the Association of Muslim Scholars, imam of the Umm al-Qura mosque and arguably Iraq's most influential Sunni cleric - in Fallujah in March, 2004.
Qatar: Al-Jazirah Satellite Channel Television in Arabic 1505 GMT 19 Mar 04
[Announcer-read report over video] Dr Harith al-Dari, secretary general of the Iraqi Muslim Ulema Council, has called for the continuation of all forms of resistance against the occupation until the liberation of Iraq. This came in a speech following a mass prayer in Al-Fallujah city.
[Begin Al-Dari recording] We hope that resistance, with all forms and directions, will escalate in the next year, the year of liberation, with the help and grace of God. Your brothers in all of Iraq now know that the occupation has not come for the sake of anybody or in order to help any side against the other side. Rather, it came to achieve its own ambitions and schemes. The occupation intends to stay in our country and even set up military bases, as propagated by the occupation and its agents, who know that their existence is contingent on that of the occupation. I hope that your resistance will escalate through words, actions, prayers, demonstrations, protests, and other forms. I also hope that all our brothers in the homeland will wake up and rise up to join their brothers in resisting the occupying to expedite its departure, God willing. [end recording] [Video shows Al-Dari addressing worshippers]
Shaykh Al-Dari's speech was delivered just eleven days prior to the murder and mutilation of the Blackwater security contractors.
Posted by: Robert Stevens at January 10, 2006 07:47 PM (ywZa8)
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