When it is said to them: "Make not mischief on the earth," they say: "Why, we only Want to make peace!" Of a surety, they are the ones who make mischief, but they realise (it) not.
(Al-Qur'an, 2:11-12 - Al-Baqara [The Cow])
(Comments in RED are Mine)
Jaafar, who toured the devastated thousand-year-old shrine on Thursday a day after the bombing which brought down its golden dome, said "holes were dug into the mausoleum's four main pillars and packed with explosives." "Then the charges were connected together and linked to another charge placed just under the dome. The wires were then linked to a detonator which was triggered at a distance," the minister
added.
To drill into the pillars would have taken at least four hours per pillar, he also estimated.Damage to the mausoleum, holding the tombs of the 10th and 11th Shiite Imams, was extensive. "The dome was completely wrecked and collapsed on the tombs which were covered over by debris. The shrine's foundations were also affected as 40 percent of the power of the blast was directed inwards," he added.
"It's a historic site, a symbol of Iraqi culture and must be treated as such," he said, adding that he would call on Iraqi officials and on UNESCO to help rebuilt the golden mosque. Jaafar said he survived a double bomb attack while returning from Samarra
Comments - Mine
If we look at the invasion & occupation of Iraq
· US & its allies invaded Iraq
· Toppled the ruling
government
· Dismantled the entire security apparatus & the bureaucracy
· Turned a blind eye to all the lawlessness & looting that followed immediately after the toppling of Saddam
· Did not have a plan to counter the resistance or was too haughty to expect any resistance for the
occupation.
Given the above factors the US Iraq US
AB
"For to us will be their return; then it will be for us to call them to account." (Holy
Quran 88:25-26)
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