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> Shrine Bombing: A new plot to divide Muslims

23 February 2006, 23:05

I’ve been looking at the pictures of the mosque and I cannot believe that the damage was done by a couple of people planting some explosives. Unless the people had forklifts to life that much explosives to the roof and surrounding structures.

The other strange thing was the story that said that there were 35 guards assigned to the mosque who were all captured and tied up (Xinhua, 02/22/2006).

I also read that there were only four men with masks and dreessed in black who conducted the affair. (Think about this and how it could be that they were able to overpower 35 guards and carry explosives and set them off and escape — all the while the guards who were tied up kept safe. Kept safe where?)

Then there were the stories on Al-Jazzeera and robert-fisk.com that said that there were 1000s of people at the mosque when it was bombed. (The photos that I saw did not show any bodies at all.)

Lastly, some police captain named Jassam was quoted as saying that there may be people buried under the rubble. The pictures do not show any of this — that is there appears to be no urgency in trying to dig up the remains of these peoples or any attempt to rescue them. The photos that I have seen on the ’net show no fire fighting equipment, no pools of blood.

There does not seem to be any documentation (photo or witness reports) that show injured and dead persons in attendance at the time of the explosion.

This is very strange. What we are being told and what I see are two complete and different realities.

Anyone else see incongruencies in this story as presented?