Iraq bombers topple Samarra minarets


Updated: 2007-06-14 07:33

Iraqis walk past the damaged Askariya shrine following an explosion in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, in this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006 file photo. Insurgents blew up the two of the repaired shrine's minarets in Samarra, Wednesday, June 13, 2007. The Askariya shrine's dome was earlier destroyed on Feb. 22, 2006, in a bombing blamed on Sunni Muslim militants believed linked to al-Qaida that unleashed a wave of sectarian violence that continues to bloody Iraq.

Iraqis walk past the damaged Askariya shrine following an explosion in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, in this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006 file photo. Insurgents blew up the two of the repaired shrine's minarets in Samarra, Wednesday, June 13, 2007. The Askariya shrine's dome was earlier destroyed on Feb. 22, 2006, in a bombing blamed on Sunni Muslim militants believed linked to al-Qaida that unleashed a wave of sectarian violence that continues to bloody Iraq. [AP]


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