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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (276125)2/22/2006 8:18:13 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1579140
 
Things are getting very testy in Iraq... this could be the beginning of the end of the Bush experiment:

Shrine Bombing Brings Deadly Reprisals By ZIAD KHALAF, Associated Press Writer

Insurgents detonated bombs inside one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines Wednesday, destroying its golden dome and triggering more than 90 reprisal attacks on Sunni mosques. The president warned that extremists were pushing the country toward civil war, as many Shiites 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 point in the three years since the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein.


Unbelievable.......that's one of the most revered/most beautiful shrines in all of Iraq. Its the equivalent of destroying St. Patrick's Cathedral or the WA monument. What a travesty!

Here is a photo of the gold dome that was destroyed....when the page opens, scroll down to Samarra:

iigholding.com

Here is a black and white pic of the entire mosque:

victorynewsmagazine.com

Its insane!
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