"mccarthur@btinternet.com" <mccarthur@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:<jar7gv0ppavbi9airpl8069l808rq8ok9r@4ax.com>. ..
> that is the olderst piece of military counter-intelligence in the
> book. it comes only second to ' The prisoner was shot attempting to
> escape' . This pathetic excues has been used by occupying forces for
> donkeys years. The Israelis are still using it regarding the
> Palestinians. You yanks are SOOOOOO thick.

We could just look at the "unargued" points :
Explosion occurred at 11:00 PM. There were no other recent reports of
late night US air-based attacks. BUT there were several people who
were very Anti-American and who had, in recent weeks, advocated
violence against the US, including the Imam of that Mosque.

Just a few months before the war, Hussein released almost every
prisoner, in every jail throughout the nation.

The pictures released, of the injured, show no standard shrapnel
"direct-distribution" wounds (compare to early war photos, especially
of children). Instead, you have burns and primarily concussive blast
wounds.

Too much of the higher parts of the mosque were remarkably unscathed,
including large sections of glass that had remained in their frames
(broken, but largely still in their frames).

Almost ALL weapons in use by our military will leave easily
identifiable debris. If the Iraqi's had found an iota of proof,
they'd have trumped it by now.

It's also peculiar how no interviews at surrounding or nearby areas
mention any aircraft. Only the very local supporters of that
particular mosque (and sympathetic to that Imam) are mentioning a
helicopter or fighter-jet.

During the war, EVERYONE acknowledged that the Iraqi's had stored
weapons in Mosques (hospitals, schools and even nursing homes).

The "weight" of evidence seems to lean strongly in favor of this being
a case of simple "natural selection" at work.