MOSQUES USED TO STAGE TERROR ATTACKS

Terrorists attack combined patrol from mosque

"Terrorists continue a disturbing trend of defiling the sanctity of religious buildings by firing from the mosques on Iraqi Security and Coalition Forces.

For the third time in four days, mosques were openly used for criminal attacks when terrorists fired at Iraqi police and Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers Wednesday while they were conducting a combined operation near Jisr Diyala, southeast of Baghdad.

Policeman from 4th Brigade, 1st National Police Division, and MND-B Soldiers, were establishing an outer cordon in order to detain a terrorist facilitator and planner when the patrol was attacked by small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire from several directions, to include the Al Huada Mosque.

"We want to remind the Iraqi people that while U.S. Soldiers respect the sanctity of mosques, those religious sites lose their protected status when terrorists use them in order to attack Iraqi Security and Coalition Forces," said Brig. Gen. David Halverson, deputy commanding general for support, MND-B. "Terrorists have been using these holy sites as bases for anti-Iraq related activity - storing weapons, bomb-making materials and death squad meetings."

A recent trend has emerged where terrorists have been using mosques to fire upon Iraqi and Coalition Forces."

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Ummmm color me NOT SURPRISED, these are of course the adherents of the "religion of peace"...

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