What a foolish statement. Do you think this helps our troops in any way whatsoever?
Maybe, maybe not. If al-Qaeda did this, all it’s going to do is turn more Shi’ites against them. It may even turn more Sunnis against them, when the Shi’ites start getting their revenge and the Sunnis have to come to us for help.
AQI is their own worst enemy. They’ve proven time and again, they don’t know when to back off. They’re pushing more and more Sunni tribal chiefs into the arms of the Iraqi government and the US, and now they may be doing it with some of the Shi’ites as well.
I assume they used large car bombs to do this. You’d need a pretty big boom to knock down those minarets. Looking at the pictures of the dome from last year, if I didn’t know it was a terrorist explosion, I’d swear an F-16 put a couple of thousand-pound GBUs right on the roof.
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