Photographs From Iraq: February 22 - March 6, 2006

WARNING SOME PHOTOS ARE DISTURBING........



In late September and early October of 2004, the U.S. military - with support from some Iraqi collaborators - launched an assault on the city of Samarra. As seen in this picture of the hospital there on October 3, perhaps hundreds of people were killed.




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After. The shrine, resting place of three Shiite Imams, decendents of Mohammad, is located in the ancient city of Samarra, where the Imams were sent by the Sunni Caliph of Baghdad more than a thousand years ago so that he could keep a close eye on them. Nearby is the well where the mythical Mahdi, the last Imam, disappeared; Shiites believe that he will return to lead them into a new age of power, peace and prosperity.



The wedge between Sunni and Shiite muslims in Iraq seemed deeper than ever before after the shrine was destroyed, as many people took even greater offense at the attack on the sacred mosque, in which no one was injured, than at the regular suicide bombings against people. Thousands of people were on the streets February 22, in Sadr City.




Moments before her death, Atwar, who was born in Samarra to a Sunni father and Shiite mother, reported on the tremendous tension on the streets of the city, which she was not able to enter.

more of what the bush administration has accomplished from the invasion of Iraq......

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060307213028458

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