Arab American News
03-03-2006
DEARBORN - A number of local Shi'a and Sunni imams, activists, and
community leaders condemned this week's bombing in Samarra, Iraq, of one of
Shi'a Islam's most important shrines.

The bombing of the Askariya mosque destroyed its golden dome and triggered
more than 90 reprisal attacks on Sunni mosques. The Iraqi president warned
that extremists were pushing the country toward civil war, as many Shi'a
lashed out at the United States as partly to blame. As the gold dome of the
1,200-year-old Askariya shrine lay in ruins, leaders on both sides called
for calm: But the string of back-and-forth attacks seemed to push the
country closer to all-out civil war than at any ...

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