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© Thomson Reuters 2017.Islamic State blows up historic Mosul mosque where it declared 'caliphate'
By Marius Bosch and Maher Chmaytelli MOSUL/ERBIL, Iraq©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Goodlucktoyou
more likely a palace in Saudi.
Kaerimashita
Impossible to figure out these lunatics' motivations. Allah must be so proud of them
nandakandamanda
Quote: "Baghdadi has left the fighting in Mosul to local commanders and is believed to be hiding in the border area between Iraq and Syria, according to U.S. and Iraqi military sources."
Surely the Russians killed him last week?
nandakandamanda
16 June, reported here:
https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-claims-it-has-killed-is-leader-al-baghdadi#comments
CrazyJoe
Say, wasn't fatso gonna destroy ISIS in a month with a secret plan that only he knew ?
Well, maybe he meant next month.
Saddam Hussein has never looked so good.
WilliB
Safe to say it is a Shia mosque, so Abu Bakr would have no problem blowing it up.
nandakandamanda
WilliB, I read that it was a seminal Sunni mosque, which is why IS chose to base itself there.
Blacklabel
Yet is ISIS not being destroyed? Let me guess, this is being done despite Trump, not because of him.
Strangerland
It was happening during Obamas administration. Trump Just wants to take credit for it.
Kestrel
no, obama took out the JV team.
CrazyJoe
These types of desecrations are an assault on the basic tenets of our civilization. I felt the same watching the Taliban blow up an ancient statue of Buddha that was said be the largest of its kind, I believe, in the world.
These houses of worship, whatever their religious persuasion, reflect the best and most enduring virtues of mankind. Their historical significance cannot be understated to the people of their respective regions and the world at large.
HonestDictator
Exactly my sentiments. 875 year old historical architecture and archeological treasure gone in a day because of religious extremism/fanaticism. The daesh value nothing but death and destruction.