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Title: Iraq shrine bombing was specialist job
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uruknet.info
URL Source: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m20998
Published: Feb 28, 2006
Author: AFP
Post Date: 2006-02-28 01:25:07 by Coral Snake
Keywords: specialist, bombing, shrine
Views: 6325
Comments: 2
Iraq shrine bombing was specialist job: minister AFP Fri Feb 24, 2006 BAGHDAD (AFP) - The bombing of a revered Shiite shrine which sparked a wave of violence in Iraq was the work of specialists, Construction Minister Jassem Mohammed Jaafar said Friday, adding that the placing of the explosives must have taken at least 12 hours. "According to initial reports, the bombing was technically well conceived and could only have been carried out by specialists," the minister told Iraqia state television. Jaafar, who toured the devastated thousand-year-old shrine on Thursday a day after the bombing which brought down its golden dome, said "holes were dug into the mausoleum's four main pillars and packed with explosives." "Then the charges were connected together and linked to another charge placed just under the dome. The wires were then linked to a detonator which was triggered at a distance," the minister added. To drill into the pillars would have taken at least four hours per pillar, he also estimated. Damage to the mausoleum, holding the tombs of the 10th and 11th Shiite Imams, was extensive.
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#1. To: Coral Snake (#0)
The U.S. Army has lots of "specialists". Btw, do you think torturing will one day be considered an employable skill in the civiliian marketplace? The army needs to cite job-skills training if it hopes to bring in new recruits.
Was there a FEMA convention in Baghdad ? FEMA is very efficient! / sarcasm
Bring Back Cyclamates!
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