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Mosque blown in Iraq

 


mephisto73
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A group of men dressed like Iraqi police commandos set off explosives at the al Askariya "Golden Mosque" in Samarra on Wednesday morning, heavily damaging the Shiite holy site, Iraqi government officials and the U.S. military said.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/22/iraq.main/index.html

I am pretty perplexed at thisstrategy of the insurgents - target its own sympathizers. One would suspect it is really a covert CIA directed operation designed to erode the popular support for Al-Qaeda.
nopaniers
The shrines are Shia shrines, so I guess that has something to do with it. I don't pretend to know everything but perhaps it is a Sunni's revenge for Shia death squads, or any number of possible causes at the moment:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4719252.stm
It's all just a guess at the moment.
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