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. [AP]
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