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Samarra, a mostly Sunni Arab city, is 100km (62 miles) north of Baghdad. The attack happened as worshippers entered the mosque around midday for Friday prayers. The biggest attack took place in Samarra , where a bomb hidden in the air-conditioning unit of a Sunni mosque was detonated, killing 18 and injuring 21 others.
Abu Qudama confessed to taking part in the attack on al-Askari mosque in Samarra and gave a detailed account of how the attack took place. Al-Rubaie said Iraqi security forces had yet to capture the mastermind of the mosque attack, Haitham al-Badri, an Iraqi and leader of one of AQI's cells who was later killed in an airstrike on 2 August 2007 ...
The 2011 Samarra bombing was an attack that took place in the city of Samarra on 12 February 2011. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest in a bus depot at the entry to the city as Shia pilgrims gathered to commemorate the death of one of their 12 revered imams. The attacker infiltrated the crowd at a security checkpoint before ...
The Battle of Samarra, also called Operation Baton Rouge, took place in 2004 during the Iraq War. The city of Samarra in central Iraq had fallen under the control of insurgents shortly after insurgents had seized control of Fallujah and Ramadi. In preparation for an offensive to retake Fallujah, on 1 October, 5,000 American and Iraqi troops ...
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
According to the papers found some of the insurgents were of Moroccan, Algerian, Sudanese, Saudi, Syrian and Egyptian nationalities. U.S. Army Combat Medic Ray Michael Fuhrmann II (killed in action on 18 August 2005 in Samarra, Iraq) was awarded the Silver Star for his actions during the attack. The lead OH-58D pilot, 1LT Michael Hultquist ...
23 July 2012 Iraq attacks: 116 Islamic State [9] 16 August 2012 Various cities 16 August 2012 Iraq attacks: 128 Islamic State [10] 9 September 2012 Various cities 9 September 2012 Iraq attacks: 108 Islamic State [11] 19 March 2013 Various cities 19 March 2013 Iraq attacks: 98 Islamic State [12] 15 April 2013 Various cities 15 April 2013 Iraq ...
The day of the attack al-Maliki asked Gen. David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker to send American reinforcements to Samarra, and to put U.S. troops in Baghdad on heightened alert. [6] Both American officials issued a joint statement saying "This brutal action on one of Iraq's holiest shrines is a deliberate attempt by al-Qaeda to sow ...