US soldiers raid Baghdad mosque 
Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 11:04PM
TheSpook
US soldiers have attacked a mosque in Baghdad's Sadr City, violating its sanctity and arresting 25 Iraqis, Iraqi sources say.Shaikh Abd al-Hadi al-Darraji, a top aide of the Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, told Aljazeera.net that what happened in Masjid al-Rasul (the Prophet mosque) revealed the real intentions of the US occupation forces. He accused a US soldier of urinating on the Quran and another of consuming alcohol within the chambers of the mosque. "[This] is a great sin in Islam," al-Darraji said. "The action of the US forces just days before Sunday's election is a serious provocation and it reveals that the US is serious in insulting the Islamic values and imposing its culture on us. "They claim they are democratic people,but they are targeting us because we boycotted the elections and said it should not be held under occupation." [more[
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