OH MY LORD!!! MSNBC Propaganda!!! Check it out.

[KissMyAsscroft]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

Look at the front page...

40 Iraqis killed NEAR a mosque...

NEAR a fucking mosque...

NEAR, NEAR NEAR???????????????????????????????????????????


HOW ABOUT INSIDE THE MOSQUE YOU FUCKING BUSH APOLOGIST WHORES!!!!!?????????!!!!!!

[Guaranteed]

1. The story says that the mosque wasn't damaged...

???

[comsymp]

Yup, they're now saying it was a mosque COMPOUND

and that only the outer wall of the mosque was damaged....

[papau]

8. BBC "gunfire from within Falluja mosque" outer wall that was destroyed

BBC ticker - 5 US Marines wounded by gunfire from within Falluja mosque

http://news.bbc.co.uk /

[comsymp]

16. Looks like they've changed it

to include the word "compound" now:

US bombards Iraq mosque complex

A US air strike has killed as many as 40 people inside a mosque compound during heavy fighting in the Sunni Muslim Iraqi town of Falluja.
A US Marine colonel said the strike targeted insurgents who had fired on US troops from inside the mosque compound.

Five US Marines were wounded by gunfire from within the compound, the US military said.


AP also specifies compound:

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. Marines in the third day of a battle to pacify this Sunni Muslim city fired a rocket and dropped a 500-pound, laser-guided bomb on a mosque compound Wednesday, and witnesses said as many as 40 people were killed.

<snip>

An Associated Press reporter saw cars ferrying the dead and wounded from the Abdul-Aziz al-Samarrai mosque. Witnesses said part of a wall surrounding the mosque compound was destroyed but the main building was not damaged.

In Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told CNN that from photos of the mosque he had seen, "the actual mosque structure itself" was not damaged.

"It is a holy place, there is no doubt about it," Kimmitt added. "It has a special status under the Geneva Convention that it can't be attacked.

"However, it can be attacked when there is a military necessity brought on by the fact that the enemy is storing weapons, using weapons, inciting violence and executing violence from its grounds," he said.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2004/04/07/international1005EDT0526.DTL

Maybe some pix will help clarify things...

[MidwestTransplant]

2. If there were people firing from the wall surrounding the Mosque

and the soliders blew up the wall, what's the problem? What were they supposed to do?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. If a foreign invader was blowing up YOUR church, what would you say then?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

13. Exactly what I said in another thread

Can you imagine terrorists attacking a Fundamentalist Christian Church? They would have the right to fight back, but Iraqi civilians don't?

[Bandit]

3. I guess it all depends on the meaning of near is.

:shrug: I guess if they were inside that could be considered near. But did you hear Clinton got a Blow Job?

[truebrit71]

4. I know...I saw that too.....I simply couldn't believe it...

The UK media is reporting it as an attack ON a Mosque, as were the original US media stories...then someone figured out how bad that might look and altered it....

If ANYONE wanted proof positive that the US media is in FULL spin mode it is this...

It is sickening and disgusting beyond belief.....

[Caution]

5. Clarification

NOt making excuses here but the 40 were killed in the Mosque compound, not in the mosque itself. There was a wall outside of the mosque that was hit by US helicopters, the 40 were inside the wall but not inside the Mosque proper.

[KissMyAsscroft]

11. They know exactly what they are doing...

It was inside the compound and that qualifies as killing people at or inside a mosque. Near implies that it is in the streets outside of the mosque.

They are just towing the Pentagon line, nothing more.

[Caution]

18. Which is why I said I wasn't making excuses

The point was that they are technically accurate if sprititually whoring for the administration

[ihaveaquestion]

12. It's not going to matter to the Iraqi's

or to other Muslims in the world.

Hallelujah - it's a Holy War!

[alcuno]

6. Even Air America said it was a "mosque compound."

Still saying that the mosque is still standing.

[Selwynn]

7. CNN saying the same thing...

[truebrit71]

10. The Guardian has it differently..and how it was first reported..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1187773,00.html

[hippiechick]

14. Oh the dude ON msrnc on tv is worse !

Some military dick with the audacity to say that 'the insurgents despicably hid behind the sanctity of a mosque' ....

insurgents ?? ... they're defending their country from us, asshole !

'hid behind ... a mosque' ... everything we've done over there is an affront to their religious beliefs !!!


:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[bushisanidiot]

19. The U.S. chased the iraqi's to their church and now they are trying

to bring the church down?

they want us out. why are we forcing them to hide in their churches for protection? why the hell would we fire on a mosque? why??

[Safi]

15. It doesn't matter what MSNBC tells America, it matters

It matters what is heard all over Iraq, which is that "The Americans bombed a mosque killing all the worshippers inside."

-Safi

[truebrit71]

17. My point exactly....

..if they didn't ALL hate us before...they sure will now....