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...They think all of them are militia," said Thabit, the commander personally appointed by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to clean up Samarra in the wake of a second bombing of the Shi'ite Askariya mosque June 13. Immediately after the bombing, Maliki ordered roughly 900 national police to Samarra, where the local police force had collapsed. And more are supposed to be coming. As many as 1,500 new national police could be inside the city in the next few weeks. So far, they have not been well received by the people of Samarra. "To be honest, they...
When the golden dome of the Askariya Mosque in Samarra was destroyed last year, many Iraqis blamed not the bombers who did the deed, but American soldiers for failing to protect one of Shi?ite Islam's holiest sites. That conformed to a pattern; for more than four years, the U.S. military has been Iraqis' scapegoat of choice for all the ills of their country...
...black is the reputation of the National Police, that after the Feb. 22 bombing of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, many Sunnis said the perpetrators were Interior Ministry troops who were looking for a pretext to start a civil war. Their fears were further fueled in the bloody two days after the attack, when Iraq became a sectarian slaughterhouse. Instead of protecting citizens from each other, National Police units stood by as Shi'ite rioters - and rival militiamen from Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army - stormed Sunni mosques and swarmed over Sunni neighborhoods, according to numerous reports, including some confirmed...
...past six days of violence that have convulsed Iraq since the bombing of the al-Askariya shrine last week could be much worse than Iraqi and Coalition officials have admitted. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that more than 1,300 bodies had been delivered to the Baghdad morgue, directly challenging the Iraqi government?s assertion that about 380 people had been killed around the country since the Wednesday bombing of the al-Askariya shrine in Samarra...
...government's security forces cannot provide the necessary protection, the believers will do it." AYATOLLAH ALI AL-SISTANI, senior Iraqi Shi'ite cleric, after a bomb shattered the golden dome of the revered Askariya Shrine in Samarra, prompting attacks on dozens of Sunni mosques. Al-Sistani later urged his followers not to attack Sunni holy sites in revenge...
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