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Al-ʿAskaria Mosque
shrine, Iraq
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- In al-Qaeda in Iraq
…destroyed the golden dome of Al-ʿAskariyyah Mosque in Sāmarrāʾ, one of Shiʿism’s holiest mosques, amplifying the existing cycle of violent retribution and provoking some of the worst sectarian violence of the post-invasion period.
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