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Golden Mosque in Samarra Being Rebuilt
The bombs that severely damaged the Golden Mosque in this city on the Tigris River almost destroyed the foundations of the nation, but the Golden Mosque is rising again, just like Iraq. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, toured the city and saw the reconstruction effort today. Steel beams gracefully soar into the sky where ruined masonry once stood. The mosque is a holy site to Shiia Muslims around the world, and is the focus of pilgrimages for the faithful. The United Nations declared the Golden Mosque — and the nearby Blue Mosque — as a world heritage site, which is a site of cultural or natural importance to humanity. The al-Qaida attack on the holy place Feb. 22, 2006, shook Iraq. “It was akin to terrorists bombing … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Mass Observance in Samarra and Balad
For the first time since 2003, Shi’a Muslims participated in a mass pilgrimage to the holy city of Samarra July 7. A mass celebration was held in honor of the former Shi’a Supreme Islamic Iraqi leader, Imam Sayyid Baqir al-Sadr. Thousands made the pilgrimage to Samarra to show their respect for the anniversary of Baqir’s death on this date 28 years ago. Baqir could trace his ancestry back to the Holy Prophet Muhammad through the Seventh Imam, Imam Musa al-Kadhim. He had many followers in Iraq prior to his brutal death in 1980. The day was full of celebration and remembrance and demonstrated that security has improved to a level that an event such as this could be held in the once precarious city of Samarra. Iraqi Security Forces provided protection along the route … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Fallujah Road Reopened
Commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Col. Michael McBride, speaks with a shop owner at a Samarra city market in January. After completion of a recent operation reconnecting old economic partners, the people of the northern-Iraqi city of Samarra can breathe again. The “Bastogne†Soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, recently finished conducting multiple operations that cleared al-Qaida fighters and other enemy extremist from the desert areas … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Residents Attempting to Give No Slack to AQI
DVIDS By Sgt. 1st Class Kevin Doheny 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Public Affairs Office As Americans we should all know the inspiring story of our founding fathers and all the brave men who sacrificed everything to fight off oppression. Basically a bunch of farmers, blacksmiths, tailors, teachers and other ordinary men answered the call to arms in the 1770′s to rid our country of tyranny. They were trained by foreigners who had experienced war and who had fought their enemy before. They then took to the battlefields as Soldiers of a common bond…the quest for freedom. Through heavy losses, and an ever-developing knowledge of their enemy, combined with a passion for freedom, those men did what had to be done…and the rest they say is history. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
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