How did I support the alleged attack? I am happy he died but I am sure he died from illness.
The guy was over 80 and suffered health conditions. Why blow up a dying man, specially with a suicide bomber, seems a waste. Also, I've never heard of Alqaeda suicide attack inside a mosque, specially for some as low security & significance as Albouti.
Why kill all those people in the mosque when they couldve used a gun? The story is simply UNBELIEVABLE. Now they should target Hasoon & Nassrallah
So now you are defending Al Quaeda as well? Who said they do not attack mosques? Is it written in their charter or something?
The 2006 al-Askari Mosque bombing occurred at the al-Askari Mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra, on February 22, 2006, at about 6:44 a.m. local time (0344 UTC). The attack on the mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, is believed to have been caused by Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Although no injuries occurred in the blasts, the mosque was severely damaged.
The bombing was followed by retaliatory violence with over a hundred dead bodies being found the next day[1] and well over 1,000 people killed in the days following the bombing – by some counts, over 1,000 on the first day alone.[2]
Although Al-Qaeda in Iraq denied any involvement in statements released, in June 2006, it was reported that Iraqi commandos and troops had captured and seriously wounded Yousri Fakher Mohammed Ali, a Tunisian also known as Abu Qudama al-Tunesi, after he and 15 other foreign fighters stormed an Iraqi checkpoint 25 miles north of Baghdad, according to Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie.
Abu Qudama confessed to taking part in the attack on al-Askari mosque in Samarra and gave a detailed account of how the attack took place. Al-Rubaie said Iraqi security forces had yet to capture the mastermind of the mosque attack, Haitham al-Badri, an Iraqi and leader of one of Al Qaeda in Iraq's cells. Al-Rubaie said al-Badri, Abu Qudama, four Saudi nationals and two other Iraqis stormed the mosque Feb. 21, rounded up the shrine's guards, members of Iraq's Facility Protection Service, and bound their hands. The group then spent the rest of the night rigging the mosque with bombs. At dawn the next day, they detonated the explosives, bringing down the dome.[12]
In an August 2006 press conference U.S. President George W. Bush stated "it's pretty clear – at least the evidence indicates – that the bombing of the shrine was an Al Qaida plot, all intending to create sectarian violence."[13] Before his death, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi listed among his goals the incitement of a civil war between Iraq's Shiites and Sunnis.[14]
In September 2006, Iraqi officials announced the capture of Hamid Juma Faris Jouri al-Saeedi in connection with the bombing, allegedly done on his orders by Haitham al-Badri.[15]
Al-Badri was killed in August 2007.[16]
Meantime...
GCC regrets Iranian intervention | ArabNews
Just look at that Kabsa Khalifa?? He may win sumo wrestling as well!
Saudi Arabia busts spy ring | GulfNews.com
Manama: Saudi Arabia has busted an espionage cell that included
16 Saudis, one Lebanese and one Iranian.
No side is angel..Middle East is gearing up for Arab vs Persian war and every one is adviced to stay neutral and look after their interest.
Just as some of the die hard fanatics claim here, if Syrian regime is all that good in coverup and propaganda then they should have been able to hide their crimes very cleverly!