From MSNBC.com:
"BAGHDAD - Saboteur bombers destroyed the two minarets of Samarra’s Askariya Shiite shrine early Wednesday, site of a 2006 bombing that shattered its famous Golden Dome and unleashed a wave of retaliatory sectarian violence that still bloodies Iraq. Sunni extremists of al-Qaida were quickly blamed.
"The repeat assault on a revered Shiite shrine immediately stirred fears of a new explosion of intra-Muslim bloodshed, and prompted the 30-member bloc of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to suspend its membership in Iraq’s parliament, threatening a deepened political crisis."
This is trouble of the biggest kind. There's violence in Iraq and then there's violence, and the latter kind usually follows an attack on holy shrines. One thing I wonder: how much is the US working to protect these places? It seems to me that if your goal is to decrease sectarian violence, then keeping mosques protected should be high on your agenda.
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