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Bombs target Iraq churches

(Filed: 01/08/2004)

 

 

At least five car bombs have exploded outside churches in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, in an apparently targeted assault on Iraq's influential Christian minority.

 

 

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Insurgents target Iraq's influential Christian minority

At least one person has been killed and 22 others wounded after the explosions unleashed chaos on the capital's streets.

 

The first car was detonated by a suicide bomber outside an Armenian church in Baghdad's upmarket district of Karada, said policeman Haidar Abdul Hussein. Minutes later, a second car bomb exploded next to a Catholic Syriac church.

 

Thick black smoke billowed in the sky above Karada, clearly visible for miles, as ambulances screamed through the streets and firemen battled to contain the blaze.

 

Shortly afterwards, a car bomb exploded inside a church and convent in southern Baghdad, causing massive damage and casualties.

 

Officials at the Ibn al-Nafeez hospital said 15 people had been admitted with injuries following the attacks and one of them later died.

 

Six people with multiple burns were treated at the al-Kindi hospital and another two at the capital's neurosurgical hospital, said officials.

 

Nervous police officers fired into the air and US helicopters circled the scene of the blasts as American soldiers were deployed in force around the two besieged churches.

 

"It's a crime. Its Sunday, we were at mass. There were a lot of women and children," Bishop Raphael Kutami, from the Syriac church, said.

 

A US military spokesman said "at least four explosions" went off in the central Baghdad area early Sunday evening.

 

In Mosul, 230 miles (370 kilometres) north of the capital, two car bombs exploded outside a church in the early evening outside the Mar Polis church in the central Mohandessin neighbourhood, said Major Mohammed Omar Taha.

 

"There are casualties, but we don't know if anyone was killed," he said.

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ahhhhh ***in' muslims :ph34r: again

islam is nothing but a cult of hate and death, the choice religion of 9 out of 10 pedophiles worldwide

Stop being ignorant!Read a little about Islam.There are fanatics on every religion including our Evangelicals who rather see all Palestinians whipped out and be replaced by Jews.

As a side note many Syrian muslim Arabs saved Genocide survivers.No offence just control your anger or redirect it to positive energy.

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Stop being ignorant!Read a little about Islam.There are fanatics on every religion including our Evangelicals who rather see all Palestinians whipped out and be replaced by Jews.

As a side note many Syrian muslim Arabs saved Genocide survivers.No offence just control your anger or redirect it to positive energy.

True, but Muslims have MORE than their fair share, in all honesty.

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Where most of the adherents don't agree with each other, I presume. They must be the religious counterpart of certain nations whose individuals dig each others' graves. ;) :P

They strongly agree on one thing - that they must subdue or kill their opponents - and disagree on minor issues such as theology, etc. :D Since they have not much brains the issues of disagreement should not matter much, anyway.

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Armenians always get the short end of the stick. Armenians die so the "western" world and Israel remains secure. 11 Jews die in Israel and it is on the news for days, but yet I have not seen any coverage on this incident.

 

Why can't they (Muslims, Jews, and Christians) leave us alone?

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there are plenty of sickos in the armenian community as well.

 

just because youre armenian doesnt mean youre a saint...what should we do about those primitive armenians who destoryes their families and their childrens lives just because their so stuck up?

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Why can't they (Muslims, Jews, and Christians) leave us alone?

Ok but to the terrorists defense, there's an Armenian Church in middle of freaking bagdad!!!! Give me a break ... "They" leave us alone? As much as you want it that way, the rest of the world doesn't subscribe to the freedom ideals we are used to here in the US.

 

You put up a church with a giant cross on it in the middle of a fundamental muslim country and what else do you expect? :blink:

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Seaphan, these were the same Muslims that you lived with for 500 years, so, quit implying that Muslims are evil. However, do not get me wrong I am in no way implying that Islam is better then Christianity, but do not forget that Muslims and Arabs have helped Armenians at times when Christians and "Westerners" have turned a blind eye.

 

This entire fiasco was caused by the "western" nations need for oil and the same "oil" seeking "westerners" in Iraq are the same ones protecting Azeri oil fields. In my opinion the responsible party is Bush and his administration.

 

The same Turks that butchered you're ancestors were the same ones that are being protected by America and Israel.

 

Armenians should distance themselves from the actions of Americans and the English or else we may soon find ourselves confronting Arabs.

 

So, in short, Armenians will never benefit if they ally themselves with these nations.

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