Steven Taylor posts a graphic from AP that shows the extent to which the bombing of one of the holiest Shia shrines in Iraq–and a gorgeous work of architecture–was damaged in yesterday’s attack.
Meanwhile, with reprisals against several of their own mosques, the major Suuni Arab party, the Iraqi Accord Front, is boycotting talks on government formation, as well as a summit called by chairman of the Presidency Council, Jalal Talabani, to deal with the crisis.
Juan Cole has his usual in-depth coverage of what news outlets in the region are reporting on all of this.
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A far better image of the scope of the damage I found at Lenin’s Tomb.
No, I’m not a Leninist, or even Marxist, but I do read around, and Lenin had this big “anti-imperialism” thing going that makes that faction ready and eager critics of international imbroglios.
Seed planted by JS Narins — 24 February 2006 @ 18:57