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Though one of the holiest Shia sites in the world, the al-Askari Shrine is situated in a predominantly Sunni town; Shia pilgrims regularly paid homage at the shrine without incident for more than 1,100 years. Sunni armed groups allied with al-Qaeda were immediately blamed for the blasts. Hours later, Shia militias unleashed a campaign of revenge against Sunnis in an already war-ravaged Iraq. (...) On April 9, 2008 Iraqi contractors started working to remove the rubble. By summer 2009, they had rebuilt the dome and the minarets, which are scheduled to be coated with gold by the end of Ramadan in September. http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/08/200981163922317160.html |
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