Tuesday, February 28, 2006

no accident

A bomb badly damaged the tomb of Saddam Hussein's father
Saddam trial resumes amid sectarian violence
Tue Feb 28, 2006

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -
A bomb badly damaged the tomb of Saddam Hussein's father at dawn on Tuesday, hours before the ousted leader was due back in court for the first time since a week of sectarian violence pitched Iraq toward civil war.

A Sunni mosque in Baghdad was also damaged by a bomb, police said, and police discovered nine bodies near the religiously mixed city of Baquba, scene of several sectarian attacks since a suspected al Qaeda bomb destroyed a Shi'ite shine on Wednesday. ...

The dome of the shrine Saddam had erected over his father's originally modest grave in the cemetery of his Sunni home town of Tikrit was damaged, local residents said, and windows and doors blown out. Police and local government officials said explosives planted at the tomb had gone off around 6 a.m. (0300 GMT). ...
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