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Iraq War - Part 4: Sectarian violence shatters Iraq and the surge begins
Before dawn on February twenty-second, two thousand six, a bomb destroyed the golden dome of the al-Askari Mosque in Samarra. The explosion shattered glass, scattered tiles, and sent shockwaves across Iraq. This sacred Shi’a shrine was now a ruin—and the true devastation was just beginning. News of the attack spread like wildfire.
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