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Although responsibility for the 2006 al-Askari bombing was not claimed by any party, the incident was followed by bouts of retaliatory violence among Iraqis, with over 100 dead bodies being found the next day [1] and well over 1,000 deaths occurring over the course of a few days after the attack; some counts place the death toll at over 1,000 ...
Two bombs were set off [7] [8] by five [9] to seven [10] men dressed as personnel of the Iraqi Special Forces [11] who entered the shrine during the morning. [12] Time magazine reported at the time of the 2006 bombing that: al-Askari [is] one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites, exceeded in veneration only by the shrines of Najaf and Karbala.
The Mosque in 2006 after the first bombing. The Al-Askari Mosque was bombed twice, over two years. On February 22, 2006, at 6:55 a.m. local time (0355 UTC) explosions occurred at the mosque, effectively destroying its golden dome and severely damaging the mosque. Several men belonging to Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups affiliated with Al-Qaida ...
al-Askari Mosque bombing could refer to one of two attacks on the al-Askari Mosque in Samarra, Iraq: 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing , which severely damaged the mosque and destroyed its golden dome 2007 al-Askari mosque bombing , which destroyed the mosque's two remaining ten-story minarets
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It has been noted that the attack was one in a string of bombings in 2007 against major Shi'ite shrines, including two car bomb attacks in Karbala: one near the Imam Husayn Shrine (which killed 36 people and wounded 168) and the other near the Imam Abbas shrine, the second-holiest site in Shi'ite Islam, which killed at least 58 people and ...
September 11: A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus full of army recruits in Baghdad killing 16 people and wounding 7. [105] September 14: A suicide truck bomb hit a U.S. Army outpost in Baghdad killing three soldiers and wounding 25. A suicide bomber strapped himself with explosives and detonated them at an Iraq police checkpoint in Tal ...
The bombings happened during 15 minutes of state endorsed silence, to mark the anniversary [5] of the Al-Askari Mosque bombing in Samarra, which prompted heavy bloodshed.The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was participating in a televised ceremony remembering the victims of the attack, and was speaking when the blasts occurred, only two miles away. [6]