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Golden Dome Shrine Bombed

Two Shrine minarets destroyed Wednesday.

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• June 13: Insurgents destroyed two minarets of the Golden Dome Shiite shrine in Samarra.
• File Photo: Iraqis walk past the damaged Askariya shrine following an explosion in Samarra, Iraq on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. Insurgents blew up the two of the repaired shrine's minarets in Samarra, Wednesday, June 13, 2007.
• June 13: Men react in the city of Karbala, Iraq, as Iraqi Shiites protested the bombing of a holy Shiite shrine in Samarra earlier in the day.
• June 13: Women cry in the city of Karbala, Iraq, as Iraqi Shiites protested a bombing of a holy Shiite shrine in Samarra earlier in the day. Suspected al-Qaida insurgents on Wednesday destroyed the two minarets of the Askariya Shiite shrine in Samarra, authorities reported, in a repeat of a 2006 bombing that shattered its famous Golden Dome and unleashed a wave of retaliatory sectarian violence that still bloodies Iraq.
• June 13: A man carries portrait of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq as Iraqi Shiites protested a bombing of a holy Shiite shrine in Samarra earlier in the day.
• File Photo: The Golden Dome Shiite shrine in Samarra in February 2004. Insurgents blew up the two of the shrine's minarets in Samarra, Wednesday, June 13, 2007.
• June 13: A watch tower of the famous Golden Dome Shiite shrine is left standing alone after insurgents blew up the two minarets in Samarra, Iraq. The Askariya shrine's dome was destroyed on Feb. 22, 2006, in a bombing blamed on Sunni Muslim militants believed linked to al-Qaida that unleashed a wave of sectarian violence that continues to bloody Iraq.