The Mosque of the Golden Dome

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The near-loss of the Al-Askari mosque is a loss for all humanity and is a desecration of one of the world's great treasures of religious architecture.

To see it as it once was: 
http://www.travel-images.com/iraq4.html

After last year's attack: http://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/Pictures/samarra_mosque.jpg

After today's attack: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=0&f=/n/a/2007/06/13/international/i061149D26.DTL  and
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/world/middleeast/14iraq.html?hp

Background: http://www.al-islam.org/static.php?content=samarra

What happened: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6707901,00.html  and http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=6/14/2007&Cat=2&Num=011
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10445611

-Kushana

 

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