Revolution #037, March 5, 2006, posted at revcom.us
The Iraqi people took another wrenching leap deeper into the hell of
U.S. occupation in the early morning of February 22. A group of men
dressed in police uniforms set off bombs that destroyed the golden dome
of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, one of the most important mosques
for Shi’a Islam. The reactionary attack on Askariya in turn triggered
more reactionary violence aimed at the mosques, political parties, and
ordinary people associated with Sunni Islam, the main rival trend to
Shi’a. [more]