May 31, 2005

"The Iraqi Resistance killed four rabbis near the gates of Baghdad International Airport on Tuesday morning (May 31, 2005) when a suicide bomber attacked their black GMC at 10:00 a.m. Baghdad time.
[Muffakirat al-Islam] Reporter quoted an Iraqi airport security guard, Nasir al-Dallawi, that the attack targeted four rabbis, who came to Iraq to visit British and American troops in Baghdad and southern Iraq, and their Greek driver. Their bodies were removed from near the airport gates after suspending all air travel for one hour.
The director of "Sindibad Travel Agency", which is affiliated with Iraqi Airways, confirmed the report: "The car was carrying four black robbed rabbis wearing yarmulkes who were heading for Al-Dallal US military base to the north of Baghdad. They were destined later to visit Al-Najjaf US military base and other nearby military bases.
He also confirmed that the suicider used a Nissan car that belonged to the Ministry of Transport."
Four rabbis are deceased near Baghdad International Airport
( http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=67397 in Arabic, my translation) May 31, 2005

I wonder how will this story be 'flushed' in the corporate media? (if the next item serves as an example).

Apparently, they have become an easy target due to their consistent routine:

"An officer at the airport, who declined to reveal his name, told Mafkarat al-Islam [March 9, 2005] that in February and now in March there has been a flood of more than 400 Christian clergymen and Jewish rabbis brought into Iraq via Saddam [Baghdad] International Airport – where the US has one of its main bases in the country. The clergymen are to give sermons and hold religious services for the US troops occupying the country.
The source said that all the clergymen have been brought in on US planes under heavy American protection. Over 150 of them went straight to al-Anbar Province, then to Mosul, Ba'qubah, and Samarra’. Another group of them remained for 10 days in Baghdad where they held services for 330 American mercenaries who had been buried in Iraq or thrown into the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. (emphasis added)
They said services in the US base in the agricultural area near al-Fallujah and at the 'Ayn al-Asad base in Hadithah, at the al-Layth base in at-Tarimiyah, and at the al-Ghazlani base in Mosul. The move followed complaints by the Vatican that prayers were not being said for US troops and their Asian and African service workers when they are killed on occupation duty in Iraq.
The source told Mafkarat al-Islam, "I wouldn’t have believed this if I hadn’t had to work in the airport where I saw the clergy as they landed in the airport wearing all their religious clothing. American personnel also informed me of the reason for their arrival and what they are doing here", the source told the correspondent."
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 9 March 2005
( http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/english/0305/iraqiresistanc
ereport_090305.htm )


Rabbi (praying) in Baghdad ... Oops ! I meant Him praying




Courtesy of Imad Khadduri < http://abutamam.blogspot.com >