Secret Squirrel
06-07-2004, 04:17 PM
Kufa mosque burns after ammo cache explodes
Monday, June 7, 2004 Posted: 5:33 AM EDT (0933 GMT)
KUFA, Iraq (CNN) -- A mosque used to store ammunition used by the militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was burning after an explosion Monday afternoon, according to witnesses.
Militia members said an American rocket hit the store of ammunition, igniting the explosion.
A senior coalition military official confirmed the explosion but said there were no coalition personnel in the area.
The coalition official suggested the blast was related to stores of ammunition kept at the mosque by the Medhi Army.
"We always suspected they kept ammunition there," the official said.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/07/kufa.mosque/index.html
Monday, June 7, 2004 Posted: 5:33 AM EDT (0933 GMT)
KUFA, Iraq (CNN) -- A mosque used to store ammunition used by the militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was burning after an explosion Monday afternoon, according to witnesses.
Militia members said an American rocket hit the store of ammunition, igniting the explosion.
A senior coalition military official confirmed the explosion but said there were no coalition personnel in the area.
The coalition official suggested the blast was related to stores of ammunition kept at the mosque by the Medhi Army.
"We always suspected they kept ammunition there," the official said.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/07/kufa.mosque/index.html