Iraq bombers topple Samarra minarets


Updated: 2007-06-14 07:33

Iraqi policeman passes a model of Samarra's Golden Dome shrine in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Suspected al-Qaida insurgents on Wednesday destroyed the two minarets of the Golden Dome mosque or Askariya Shiite shrine in Samarra, Iraq Wednesday, authorities reported, in a repeat of a 2006 bombing that shattered its famous Golden Dome and unleashed a wave of retaliatory sectarian violence that still bloodies Iraq.

Iraqi policeman passes a model of Samarra's Golden Dome shrine in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Suspected al-Qaida insurgents on Wednesday destroyed the two minarets of the Golden Dome mosque or Askariya Shiite shrine in Samarra, Iraq Wednesday, authorities reported, in a repeat of a 2006 bombing that shattered its famous Golden Dome and unleashed a wave of retaliatory sectarian violence that still bloodies Iraq.[AP]


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